Ok, so I'll preface this question with a little story. My fiancee was admitted to our local hospital via A&E on Monday. There are 2 visiting periods every day and I've been up for everyone of them. In that time I've seen security and police called for assaults on nurses, people in for swollen livers having bottles of neat vodka taken off them they somehow got, people refusing medication and people generally ignoring doctor/surgeon/nurse's advice. I was talking to one of the nurses and I said how strange it was some people would act this way and was surprised when she said it's how the majority act.
I've personally known people who get out of hospital and disregard what they were told only to land themselves back in, I've known people take no care of themselves because the doctor/dentist/nurse will sort it.
So all I can assume from above is people are taking the healthcare for granted it being free and all (NHS), the doctors and nurses are doing their best but the people between 18-30 seem to be adverse to listening to them or doing anything to help themselves. All on my (and everyone else's) taxes.
This got me wondering, whilst the NHS is wonderful it does get abused and taken for granted. Would these people be a little more willing to listen and take care of themselves were they to pay for their own healthcare or would it just be the same. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't trade the NHS for a fully privatized health system, but could this be the one way in which America got it right?
I've personally known people who get out of hospital and disregard what they were told only to land themselves back in, I've known people take no care of themselves because the doctor/dentist/nurse will sort it.
So all I can assume from above is people are taking the healthcare for granted it being free and all (NHS), the doctors and nurses are doing their best but the people between 18-30 seem to be adverse to listening to them or doing anything to help themselves. All on my (and everyone else's) taxes.
This got me wondering, whilst the NHS is wonderful it does get abused and taken for granted. Would these people be a little more willing to listen and take care of themselves were they to pay for their own healthcare or would it just be the same. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't trade the NHS for a fully privatized health system, but could this be the one way in which America got it right?