Ronald Pulfrew - our overstaffed and inefficient NHS costs us less per head than any other health care provider in Europe or the USA - how can they afford it and the UK cannot?Health care is not cheap but is essential after all it is taxpayers who avail themselves of the service they pay for - it is only 'free' at the point of delivery. Of course waste and bad practice should be eliminated but do not throw the baby out with the bath water. If we get rid of the NHS taxpayers will be paying considerably more than they do now so I am a little puzzled at that philosophy. Margaret Thatcher privatised the railways and that was a huge success was it not? Highest rail fares in Europe even with subsidies much higher than when they were nationalised.