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Feedback: Healthscare insurance

5 December 2012

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Healthscare insurance

IN THE middle of the UK’s autumn “conference season”, in which political parties worry everyone with their policy pronouncements, or lack of them, a message arrived in Feedback’s inbox addressed to someone called GILL. It has continued to arrive once a week or so ever since.

Bearing in mind that a hot topic for this year’s party conferences was the National Health Service, the email asks: “Tired of waiting for a doctor?” It explains: “Dear GILL, with an ageing population and far-reaching budget cuts, the NHS has never been under so much strain. Yet for less than the price of daily…

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