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Melendez, you said "the more you pay the better service you should get". My mother worked and paid national insurance, from which the NHS is supposedly funded, not 'taxes' as income tax, from 1946 until 1983 when she retired. She worked all this time apart from a few months for each pregnancy she had, so I would argue that she had paid far more in actual terms than someone who had been working for 3 years. So did my father. I won't bore you with their social history before 1946 but suffice to say both their families fell foul of being poor where health matters were concerned, and it wasn't because they didn't work, it was because they were poor. I do not think it is fair that working a 6 day week for most of your life doesn't qualify you for having the same rights as someone who doesn't have to work but has a lot of money, or someone does work and is paid a higher salary. Who gets to judge who is more 'deserving' and should be treated 'first'?

<blockquote data-quote="Etta Place" data-source="post: 2098835"><p>Melendez, you said &quot;the more you pay the better service you should get&quot;. My mother worked and paid national insurance, from which the NHS is supposedly funded, not &#039;taxes&#039; as income tax, from 1946 until 1983 when she retired. She worked all this time apart from a few months for each pregnancy she had, so I would argue that she had paid far more in actual terms than someone who had been working for 3 years. So did my father. I won&#039;t bore you with their social history before 1946 but suffice to say both their families fell foul of being poor where health matters were concerned, and it wasn&#039;t because they didn&#039;t work, it was because they were poor. I do not think it is fair that working a 6 day week for most of your life doesn&#039;t qualify you for having the same rights as someone who doesn&#039;t have to work but has a lot of money, or someone does work and is paid a higher salary. Who gets to judge who is more &#039;deserving&#039; and should be treated &#039;first&#039;?</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Etta Place, post: 2098835"] Melendez, you said "the more you pay the better service you should get". My mother worked and paid national insurance, from which the NHS is supposedly funded, not 'taxes' as income tax, from 1946 until 1983 when she retired. She worked all this time apart from a few months for each pregnancy she had, so I would argue that she had paid far more in actual terms than someone who had been working for 3 years. So did my father. I won't bore you with their social history before 1946 but suffice to say both their families fell foul of being poor where health matters were concerned, and it wasn't because they didn't work, it was because they were poor. I do not think it is fair that working a 6 day week for most of your life doesn't qualify you for having the same rights as someone who doesn't have to work but has a lot of money, or someone does work and is paid a higher salary. Who gets to judge who is more 'deserving' and should be treated 'first'? [/QUOTE]

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