Should we pay a monthly membership fee to the NHS?

[simondjuk]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26788377

Please feel free to correct me if im wrong, but dont we already pay a membership fee?  Otherwise known as National Insurance?  What if for 12 months I dont need NHS Services?  Do I get a refund? 

What they should do is instead of penalising us who pay our NI, charge for any treatment before any takes place on any 'health tourist'.

Im pretty confident that would save quite a few million quid.

[Alsatian]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26788377

Please feel free to correct me if im wrong, but dont we already pay a membership fee?  Otherwise known as National Insurance?  What if for 12 months I dont need NHS Services?  Do I get a refund? 

What they should do is instead of penalising us who pay our NI, charge for any treatment before any takes place on any 'health tourist'.

Im pretty confident that would save quite a few million quid.

What about charging the pi55heads that regularly clog up A&E and take up the Ambulance Services valuable time?

[Pete]

It makes a mockery of the whole thing!

It's supposed to be free at the point of service etc.

They've hived off a few bits already - dentistry, etc.

I think a lot of this to get the NHS services into the hands of the already rich and powerful...

I read a list of Tory MPs who had a stake in various health companies recently, they're all at it. 

So we built it, paid for it, etc - now they want to give it to themselves and their cronies!

As Simon said, we already pay National Insurance.

Another Tory disgrace! 

[Old Cruser]

In this Scrubbing Up, former Labour health minister Lord Norman Warner and Jack O'Sullivan, head of a social policy consultancy, who have written a paper for the think tank Reform, set out their thoughts - including a £10 monthly membership fee.

This is from a former Labour Health Minister?

No!
 I don't think we should be asked to pay any more. I agree what has already been posted by others

[Pete]

>> This is from a former Labour Health Minister?

He's probably got shares in a health insurance company 

[Scimitar]

Emphatically NO!!