Time for European style socialized medine

[Red Celt]

You not knowing anyone who thinks that does not disprove my point. It's an argument from personal incredulity of sorts, which is a logical fallacy.

You're absolutely right. How could I possibly claim that there are people who don't realise that they pay tax and that some of that tax goes to the NHS. That would be an incredible claim to make.

Right, and whilst that sounds like a great idea, nobody seems to care about the true cost of it.

How come only one of us is allowed to argue by anecdote?

No...if you have an accident, the NHS ambulance comes as per usual, and you are cared for by NHS hospital staff.

Great. OK. What if everyone decided to do the same thing? No NHS ambulances, no NHS, as nobody is paying for it from their tax. Or is this the whole, "I'm alright jack" argument, because I'd hoped that that had mostly died with Thatcherism.

A social healthcare system only works if it is social. I'm sure that you believe that your health is more important than everyone else's... but guess what? They think the same about their health. The deciding factor in triage shouldn't be wealthy-first, then the poor. Because, then we really would all be fucked.