What the NHS considers 'fair'

The United Kingdom's government-run health care system faces a terrible dilemma: how to balance the freedom of the individual wanting to do everything possible to prolong life against a system which has to set limits on behalf of everyone in order the preserve the principle of free care for all irrespective of their ability to pay, says the Guardian. Under the current system:

• The National Health Service (NHS) will withdraw a sick person's free care merely because they chose to fund an additional element, such as a special drug, of their treatment themselves. [i.e., buy any supplemental care and you're out of the system {forget the taxes you've been paying into it forever}]

Although many currently believe that allowing top-ups would be a good thing, the UK's publicly funded health system must determine whether it can allow some patients to top up their treatment without seriously damaging the equity of the current system...

[i.e., it's government]

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