Posted: Apr 21, 2017 11:53 am
Scot Dutchy wrote:We do pay higher taxes than Britain but the Dutch accept it. Certain fields are always covered such as education and health. They are not in the political area. They are run independent of government. We have large and very effective inspectorates in both. There is no 'Department of Health'. The health system is run by the private insurance companies.
Here is a CNN report over it.
Doing that in the UK would likely be tainted with the "privatising the NHS" tag.