BUPA = private medical insurance.
If i pay for BUPA membership, then if i get sick then i can get treatment right away. If i dont have BUPA then i will have to wait in line.
Wether i pay BUPA or rely on National Health Service, 99% of the time i will still see the same doctor and use the same hospitals. To my knowledge, the only real facilities BUPA have are a few wards dotted around the country which are better than the NHS ones.
However, if require emergency treatment, then being NHS or BUPA will make absolutely no differance ie an ambulance will come and take you to A&E regardless.
OK, so the main point is that BUPA dont really have any of their own facilities or equipment, and that to conduct their business they must rely on using NHS facilities/equipment.
So, although 'the people' paid for their hospitals, if 'a person' wants to pay BUPA, then that person can go before 'the people', even though it is their hospital!!!
How is this different to, say, paying a big scary man at the supermarket check-out, so that you can push in. People behind cant do anything about it or else they get a punch!!!
Or am i wrong??? Perhaps the NHS do benefit from this....perhaps there is equipment in hospitals that wouldnt be there if it was not for some people paying extra.... I know this is what BUPA will say, but i wonder if its really true....and if it is true, then why do we have to let BUPA make money from it??? Why not have a 2 tier service run by the government???
I dont really care if we have NHS or private health care. I do think NHS is fantastic, and i would hate to have a system like in america, which is essentually designed to bankrupt you if you catch a cold. However, what i cannot stand is a system that, appears, to make tons of money from something that isnt theirs, to the cost of the owners. It would be better to have one system or the other.
If i pay for BUPA membership, then if i get sick then i can get treatment right away. If i dont have BUPA then i will have to wait in line.
Wether i pay BUPA or rely on National Health Service, 99% of the time i will still see the same doctor and use the same hospitals. To my knowledge, the only real facilities BUPA have are a few wards dotted around the country which are better than the NHS ones.
However, if require emergency treatment, then being NHS or BUPA will make absolutely no differance ie an ambulance will come and take you to A&E regardless.
OK, so the main point is that BUPA dont really have any of their own facilities or equipment, and that to conduct their business they must rely on using NHS facilities/equipment.
So, although 'the people' paid for their hospitals, if 'a person' wants to pay BUPA, then that person can go before 'the people', even though it is their hospital!!!
How is this different to, say, paying a big scary man at the supermarket check-out, so that you can push in. People behind cant do anything about it or else they get a punch!!!
Or am i wrong??? Perhaps the NHS do benefit from this....perhaps there is equipment in hospitals that wouldnt be there if it was not for some people paying extra.... I know this is what BUPA will say, but i wonder if its really true....and if it is true, then why do we have to let BUPA make money from it??? Why not have a 2 tier service run by the government???
I dont really care if we have NHS or private health care. I do think NHS is fantastic, and i would hate to have a system like in america, which is essentually designed to bankrupt you if you catch a cold. However, what i cannot stand is a system that, appears, to make tons of money from something that isnt theirs, to the cost of the owners. It would be better to have one system or the other.