What Are Your Thoughts On This?

[cassa333]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-46634595/should-the-nhs-pay-for-transgender-fertility-treatment

My belief is that no. They should not pay for transgender fertility treatment.

[237SJ]

"Mind you I also believe the NHS needs serious reform" I have a very good friend who has worked in the NHS since the 1980s. She told me that when the media say the NHS is hanging by a thread that is no exageration. It really is hanging by a thread. The whole thing should be abolished and people should have private health care like they do in other parts of the world.

[Cloverjo]

Wooh, that really is a whole new discussion, 237sj.

I'm very grateful for all the help my family have had from the NHS, and am very glad we don't live in the USA, for instance.

[237SJ]

Why? I would rather be a cancer sufferer in the US than the UK

[bodeker]

No , simple as that .

[Rockrose]

I have had my 2 operations private and I have to say they were amazing as was the aftercare

[Canary42]

/// people should have private health care ///

That's right, with rich share-holders creaming off millions from people's misfortune, and the poor getting no health care at all - certainly a lovely society to live in - bring it on.

[237SJ]

From conversations with my European colleagues, that is not the case. They have private health care but there is a Medicare system for those who can't afford to pay.

[Old_Geezer]

Covering the health bill for our whole population, costs, and should be correctly budgeted for. Switching to a system that benefits those able to afford to be sufficiently insured, and which says, "tough luck", to the rest, is a step back to more primitive immoral society. It is unconscionable.

But back to the OP, it ought not be on the NHS list of services. So health funding ought not be a concern.

[Old_Geezer]

How can Medicarecover what the NHS struggles to ? Stands to reason that it can't. Meanwhile you can go private in the UK if you want.

[Old_Geezer]

...Medicare cover...

[ummmm]

Shocking answers from Theland. He should be ashamed!

[waterboatman]

Most definitely NO!

[murraymints]

at a time when NHS is stretched trying to treat the very ill...no kind of vanity surgery should be offered... cosmetic or otherwise..it is not a right to parent a child....even without transgender complications... the sick should have priority over everything

[waterboatman]

Precisely minty. If they want that treatment they should pay for it...up front!

[Rockrose]

But waterboatman if it’s offered to some it should be offered to everyone that’s what the NHS ethos is for everyone

[Old_Geezer]

Which suggests the service may not be a valid NHS issue.
Opinions are split on ensuring a child is brought up in an unconventional relationship, so this creates a debate that healing the sick wouldn't.

[ToraToraTora]

the NHS has many calls on its resources and there is no shortage of people in the world. I can't believe this discussion is still going.

[sp1814]

Then the discussion should be on whether we should treat smokers, and the very overweight whose health conditions are a direct result of their lifestyle choices.

Why aren’t we looking at the big ticket items?

[Old_Geezer]

Because the priority is looking at non-health items that may be being funded in error ?
Lifestyle that causes a health issue is still a health issue to be cured.

[hereIam]

NO ! And I don't see why Theland can't voice his opinion without certain abers getting their knickers in a twist ..