Does the NHS make people ill?
When the NHS was set up, it was believed that ‘after a period of heavy spending, the nation would become fitter and healthier and future costs would be lower’ [LINK].
Today the NHS bill increases and governments for some reason see pride in spending more and more on it. Surly one should be ashamed as this simply means the country is becoming unfit, not heather.
So does the NHS make people unhealthy?
The argument one could suggest is that people can eat and smoke and drink as much as they want, knowing that the NHS can (or will try to) fix them. One would suggest that without the NHS and people had to pay for all care that they would take better care of themselves. Would we really see fat people today in the UK, or smokers or people drinking heavily or indeed driving badly, if they had to pay for there treatment?
However the poor would get no treatment as they could not afford it.
This is the great problem with the NHS, while it helps some, it could be argued it makes others unhealthy.
The NHS needs to be updated. The problem is no government will ever dare to even suggest it, due to the fact the public will panic and have a fit over any suggestions. Health care has always changed. Beliefs and better ways update organically. The problem is, is that the public see change as something bad. Yet we should welcome change, and see it as good. In truth its more than likely that very soon the NHS will simply break, unless its completely rte-invented to become fit for use. Unfortunately, most governments simply try to patch up the cracks than do any real change to the good.
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