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Subject: But what about people in between?

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Roberdin

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Date Posted: 13:51:33 11/20/04 Sat
In reply to: Silly Billy 's message, "Nope" on 23:59:07 11/19/04 Fri

I'm strongly in favour of public service, as you may have noticed.

The major problem with private services is not with the poor who cannot ever afford pay for it, but with those who can barely. The people that would have to take a severe hit in their standard of living to enjoy the benefits of health care insurance, TV, education, et cetera.

What's more, having two or three 'tiers' of service is particularly unacceptable. People who fall back on the health service should be able to do so witgh confidence that they will recieve a good service. Now, you may argue that the NHS is bad at the moment, but as we all know, there are lies, damn lies, and statistics. It really is not bad in comparison to what it would be if those in the upper tax bands weren't 'donating' generously towards it.

If they could freely choose a superior service instead of paying tax, then they would. But then the quality of the free service would suffer significantly and we'd end up with the quality of peoples healthcare being soley dependent on how much they earn, and frankly, that is not acceptable in modern Britain.

Even Margaret Thatcher didn't dare privatise the NHS. It is another one of our not-so-good-but-we'll-kill-you-if-you-try-to-take-it-away services. Unlike the BBC, it has a lot of work to do before it can be on par or supersede its commericial cousins. But I'm confident, that with the appropriate management and funding, it can be respected world wide.

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