Re: Not Surprised
"For UK citizens the cost of health treatment is exactly zero unless the patient chooses a private health provider or private treatment within an NHS hospital's private wing ."
To be precise, the NHS is free at the point of treatment.
The actual cost comes out of general taxation and National Insurance[*].
* when I first started work, National Insurance (N.I.) contributions were known as N.H.I. contributions (National Health and Insurance?) but that got shortened to plain N.I. somewhere in the late 70s or early 80s.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
