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Pay for healthcare? We already do. The 3 question MPs must answer.

A government minister has proposed setting up an inquiry to consider whether we need to move away from a tax-payer funded NHS to one that relies on insurance or co-payments. One reader's open letter to her MP.

By Emma Bishton
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Below is an open letter to my MP, James Cartlidge, Conservative MP for South Suffolk.

Dear James Cartlidge

I understand that a few days ago the government health minister, Lord Prior, suggested during a Lords debate on the NHS that he would set up an inquiry into the future funding of the NHS. Apparently, now “demand outstrips supply” (as he put it) in the NHS, the inquiry needs to consider whether we need to move away from a tax-payer funded system to one based on insurance or other means of co-payment.

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