Plastic Villan
Vital 1st Team Regular
I'm not against rich people going rpivate but then you have to introduce means testing which usually costs more than it saves and makes it harder for less educated or elderly people to access services they are entitled to. The NHS employs so many people because has until recently been one organisation (that is changing now). So all the back up services like IT, canteens etc were manned by NHS staff (no longer). In other countries that is not the case. But in those countries the tax payer is still paying for that stuff they just don't pay the staff directly.