Mr Kobayashi
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Price of everything but value of nothing.Doesn’t actually matter if they use the NHS or private healthcare.
Still the taxpayer who picks up the bill, and putting them through private healthcare reduces capacity and the ability to clear NHS backlogs by using private.
There are clear public health reasons why we might want to treat asylum seekers or people from overseas and prevent infections to the rest of the population.
It's not a general rule that people wait months or years for treatment. That's for surgery. And there are often good clinical reasons for delays anyway, e.g. obesity or not quitting smoking before an operation.
Any evidence that the asylum seekers are having knee and hip replacements or is it just an irrelevant point?