[britlabour]

That’s the kind of thing I’m getting at! Britain seems to be (from my travels) the only state healthcare system that works. I only ever pay seven pence per pound (7%) national insurance (NI covers the NHS, not tax - by the way). So on my wages I pay £2,100 per year, yet over the last five years I have probably used around £3000 worth of health care.

[Phantom Lord]

I only ever pay seven pence per pound (7%) national insurance (NI covers the NHS, not tax - by the way).

So 7% of your pay is forceably taken from you for National Insurance, yet you claim this isn't a tax. If the government takes it from you by force, its a tax no matter what they call it.

[socialismisinsidious]

So on my wages I pay £2,100 per year, yet over the last five years I have probably used around £3000 worth of health care

Ahem. So YOU didn't pay for all the health care that you used BUT SOMEONE DID! That system may only sound socialist to you but it is socialist to the core.

What right do you have to expect someone else to pay for your health care? When the government takes the wealth of one man to give to the other (in the form of health care) then that IS socialism.

I'm sick of carrying others on my back. Pay for your own damn health care! If I choose to help you out of the goodness of my heart then that's compassion, the government taking my money to help you is coercion.

It's all about a small little thing that WE like to call freedom.