NHS Care - Paid For But No Entitlement To?!
It would set out for the first time the rights and responsibilities linked to entitlement to NHS care. (BBC)
Whether you smoke or are overweight, so long as you pay your taxes, there is no reason how or why you should not get the healthcare which you have already paid for. You have the right to get free healthcare from the NHS whether or not you have a perfect healthy lifestyle - that’s the whole point of the NHS! Healthcare free at the point of delivery as required. Otherwise what’s the point of paying taxes for an NHS that you won’t benefit from?
If you are a British citizen and require healthcare, you are entitled to it from the NHS. No ifs or buts about “responsibilities” that require people to change their lifestyle before treatment. Of course they should take change their lifestyle to be more healthy, but that should not be part of any requirement for free healthcare from the NHS - it has already been paid for.
There is no choice about whether or not you pay tax for the NHS, so the NHS should have no choice about whether to treat you. If the NHS wants to become a conditional service, then it should be privatised.
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