Inspired by Polly Toynbee in the Guardian this morning
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That’s interesting. The laser eye surgery to correct defective vision. As far as I understand it it’s pretty much free market competition all the way. But I admit, I’ve not really lived in the UK since it became commonplace.
Perhaps the NHS does offer it, I don’t claim to know, but I do know that a considerable number of private clinics do. This is competition in healthcare provision and is anyone trying to doubt the efficiency of it?
As ever Tim you take one incredibly simple example (and that’s what this surgery is) and extrapolate a wholly inappropriate conclusion from it
Which is true of almost all your thinking
Quite frankly, only the most blind sophist would disagree with this diagram and Polly’s missive.
Eye conditions that can lead to blindness are free and paid for by the NHS. Laser surgery for long/short sightedness is regarded as cosmetic, and since those conditions are catered for by spectacles and/or contact lenses the NHS does not offer laser surgery for those.
Take your pick. In the current climate there is every reason to suppose that NHS laser surgery for the above will be available soon, as PAYG (hospitals/source income via private treatment/49% max)
My local hospital now “offers” emergency treatment, paediatric, at other hospitals (nearest 25 miles) due to poor consultant services the hospitals paediatric doctors were withdrawn.
As I told the local ‘paper “watch the pea, not the shell”