SARAH VINE: At 75, creaking NHS needs radical surgery

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : All that money goes straight to private health providers and their shareholders - the NHS, and by extension the taxpayer, doesn't see a penny, even though it's their consultants, people they've trained, who provide the care.
49% : If I were him, I would stop trying and turn to something that should have been done a long time ago, but which no politician has ever had the guts to do: call time on the NHS in its current form, writes Sarah VineSince Covid, the number taking out private health insurance has rocketed - 500,000 more, according to the latest figures.
30% : For a start, even though medical graduates pay for only a fraction of the cost of their training, they still leave university with a nasty chunk of student debt - which most of them deeply resent.

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