Decline the jab

[Graham Breeze]

For the 2018/19 tax year the NHS received £114 billion out of total tax receipts of £620 billion. This means 18 percent of all income tax, national insurance, fuel duty, alcohol duty, insurance tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, stamp duty and VAT goes to the NHS (and I've probably missed a few taxes there).

If people were offered their 18 percent in return then most people would be financially better off to leave the NHS and take out private health care. Last year, after major surgery that I'd been waiting for more than a year my GPs practice told me that I was unable to see a nurse for over 11 days - I had instead to queue at the local hospital (who were very good I must stress)

I think you'd find that if you revoked NHS numbers, and paid the people the amount they were due, it would lead to the break up of the NHS. Is that what you want?

I think people who opine about PMI should reveal their experience of it, their age, how much they are paying, what their cover is, what their previous medical history is - and whether they are paying the fees themselves rather than their employer or their own business.

PMI providers are not charities.