Patients, doctors and officials across the health care system widely acknowledge that patients regularly must pay for some parts of their treatment despite a supposedly 'free' system :
> A 46-year-old woman with breast cancer who paid $250 for a second opinion when the health service refused to provide her with one.Officials say that allowing people to pay for extra drugs to supplement government care would violate the philosophy of the health service by giving richer patients an unfair advantage over poorer ones. But others say what is really unfair is a health service riddled with inequities.
> An elderly man who spent thousands of dollars on a new hearing aid instead of enduring a yearlong wait on the health service.
> A 29-year-old woman who, with her doctor's blessing, bought a three-month supply of Tarceva, a drug to treat pancreatic cancer, for more than $6,000 on the Internet because she could not get it through the NHS.
[when it's government run, all aspect of political correctness bleed into it and it's a race to the bottom, including banning folks from buying treatment themselves]
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