It is a curious fact, that no one ever really discusses, with the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom that their philosophy, as espoused succinctly in Monetarism under Margaret Thatcher, and repeated by successive ministers, requires people to pay for the services they receive and if they do not have the money, to go without. Broadly speaking this is the same philosophy as the Republican Party in America.
And yet when it comes to the National Health Service the party somersaults and hedges and argues that everything is free at point of need…whilst deliberately making things harder to get and slowly bringing in private enterprise to run hospitals so that the principle of getting value for money becomes one of getting value with money, i.e. if you pay, you receive. They never want to own up to the fact that they do not want people to receive anything free but prefer to make a new business from increasing the levels of private medical insurance.
I feel sorry for the public who do not seem to be aware that the basic philosophy of the Conservative Party is not conducive to a free at point of need National Health Service. They don’t seem to care. Until they are ill.