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Like any big business the UK's £5 billion medical insurance industry has to sell its product to satisfy share-holders. An abundance of advertising and websites extoll the virtues of private health insurance. Their message can usually be summed up thus:
“You can jump queues, have a TV in your room, choose your specialist and appointment, and perhaps have treatment unavailable on the NHS”. What such messages fail to tell us is the following.
