.......... If they can afford to do that they can afford the injections. ...........
........ And for going away on business, my company paid for the injections like many others do and rightly so, and it was charged to the job. ..........
I sense that this may be the common argument of "I don't need it so the NHS should either not provide it or charge for it."
Many old people use this to argue against spending money on such things as fertility treatment, anorexia support, gastric bands etc etc.
Many youngsters use it to argue against the provision of hip and knee replacements etc etc.
Just about everyone who is
not overweight or a smoker uses obesity and smoking to argue against the provision of treatment for the people who are; even if the ailment is unrelated to their obesity.
Using the same logic,
how about all those people who "self-harm" by indulging in sports? Surely, they should pay for any rescue or treatment required?
The truth is that we have a National Health Service that is supposed to provide treatment
FREE at point of delivery to
EVERYONE who needs it.
Within that remit, over the last seventy years, NHS management and UK Politicians have decided that certain things will be provided and over the years, as demand has increased and technology has improved, these provisions
and the costs that go with them have also increased.
In the name of "efficiency" hundreds of local hospitals have been closed and now in the name of "austerity" thousands of treatments and services are to be removed.
The real reasons behind the current problems are a lack of control and good management both inside and outside the NHS, coupled with the massive expectations of the general public.
We are now in a state of "free-for-all" where vested interests are screaming more or less
"Don't take it away from ME, take it away from THEM."
I sincerely hope and pray that I will be dead before I ever need a gender change or help with a fertility problem; but I don't see why the people who need such things to live a better and happier life should be denied them.
Ditto on the highlighted aspects above. I know many people who
pay their National Insurance and have to scrimp and save to take themselves and their families on holiday abroad. Why should
THEY be punished by being given an added burden.
There are hundreds of thousands of Brits who work overseas as independent contractors (I was one of them) who have
already paid their National Insurance in the UK and
by working overseas will not be a burden on the NHS until they return to the UK.
If any of these people (holidaymakers
OR workers) return to the UK with an ailment or disease due to a lack of vaccination what do we do then? Let them roam the streets and spread their illness? Make them pay for their treatment even though they will be unable to work?
These are the reasons why I consider that charging for vaccinations would be a step in the wrong direction!