(February 12, 2017 at 12:45 pm)Bella Morte Wrote:I'd also add, start making smokers and very obese people pay for their own healthcare, tbh.(February 12, 2017 at 11:36 am)mh.brewer Wrote: Most people here rave about the NHS. What would you like to see different?
Honestly, I don't know but simple steps such as billing binge drinkers who end up in A&E, and clamping down on health tourism could save a bit of money.
Reducing the wages of the overpaid higher-ups might be also be a step in the right direction.
Britain currently spends around £12 billion on foreign aid a year, to countries such as Pakistan and India, which could easily be stopped entirely or cut and diverted to the NHS instead.
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