You’ve seen me rail against nationalized health care before, and there’s a good reason.  There’s hardly anything the government can do that can’t be done better and more efficiently through a free market.  Britain’s NHS is a fiasco, sucking up billions each year, and the service…

…well it still sucks.

It sucks so badly, that the government bureaucrats who run it don’t want to have anything to do with it when they’re sick.  So what do they do?  They use the money stolen from the taxpayers to pay for this particular socialist scheme to buy themselves private care.


An NHS trust has spent more than £12,000 on private treatment for hospital staff because its own waiting times are too long.

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Bosses said it prevented them from leapfrogging NHS patients and enabled them to return to work more quickly.

However, the private treatment, which amounted to £12,116 for 271 appointments over the past year, was described by critics as “shocking”.


Mark Wallace of the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: “Their staff should have to wait like everybody else.


“Perhaps if they experienced it as their customers – that is the taxpayer – experienced it, they might be a little keener to improve their waiting times.”

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