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Johnson, eh? What a rebel, what a rule breaker? He's done something truly beyond the pale this time! What could that be? Kicked a nun in the head? Shagged a dead dog? Smoked crack at a kiddies' tea party?
No, he's used private healthcare. This act, of choosing to spend your own money to queue jump a bit and to get a better standard of healthcare than on the NHS, is apparently the great and terrible thing you can never do. And he's such a massive rebel about it that he's going to tell us all about it.
I look back at the sheer quantity of cash the UK state – that is you – has lavished on the healthcare of my immediate family. We have been born in the NHS, we have seen our children brought into the world by the amazing maternity teams and, surrounded by its comforts and mercies, some of us have inevitably died. We love the NHS, and we want to protect it, because we know that for all the big medical disasters – trauma, cancer, heart disease – the NHS cannot be beaten.
We must fund it properly and cherish it properly. But if you look at the demographic trends in this country – the vast number of senescent baby boomers – and if you look at the state of the public finances, you can see what every doctor really knows: that we are not going to fix the problems of the NHS, in the long term, if we rely on taxpayer funding alone.
So, it's private for your kidney stones, but NHS for all the
really expensive stuff. And yes, it should be properly funded. And what's that they say about everything before the word 'but'?
See, I'd imagine that most of us would have no problem with people
choosing to go private. It's your money, do as you wish. What we don't want is for people to be
forced to pay for private healthcare. And if your attitude is "Why should I pay for the NHS when I've got private cover?", then you're a cunt. And your faux patriotism isn't fooling anyone. You're just too tight to fully embrace the private sector when it comes to serious money.
Cunt.