Boris Johnson said patients should have to pay to use the NHS so they will 'value' it more - Business Insider

Boris Johnson called for patients to be charged to use the NHS in order to prevent free care being "abused" by people who can afford to pay, in a column unearthed by Business Insider.

"If NHS services continue to be free in this way, they will continue to be abused, like any free service," he wrote in the Spectator Magazine in 1995.He added that those who say "the future the NHS should be for those who are genuinely sick, and for the elderly," are "bang on the nail." Johnson claimed that the only reason charges hadn't been introduced by the then Conservative government was because of political "cowardice."

"I think it is all very well to treat the NHS as a religion, but it is legitimate for some of us to point out that insofar as it is a religion it is letting down its adherents very, very badly," he told the House of Commons in 2002.Getty

JimMedway This is a bad idea. I think the NHS is great. I couldn't afford to pay for it

Says the people that pay for nothing!

They do pay, it's called national insurance.

Health of tax of national policy to budget of expenditure for the intergrarion development of the national health.

AdamBienkov For more than 200 yrs Tories have been using arguments about 'undeserving poor' to justify minimising social expenditure. They used to claim that poverty & ill health was Gods punishment of sinners, but now merely that they've made bad choices, but still their fault. voteLabour

I pay extra so I guess I value it the most

AdamBienkov No Damascene conversion here. This shows that the NHS is up for sale, be it the trusts set up in 2012 or the other structures.

They already do pay. The NHS isn't free.

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