Letter
Sacrosanct
30 March 2023
Alice Spawls writes about the diminution and degradation of NHS services (LRB, 30 March). As a GP I meet patients almost daily who have been obliged to seek private treatment. They are often rueful about the cost, and say that they’d rather pay a little more in tax than spend tens of thousands of pounds of savings.David Runciman, in the same issue, notes that mixed-payment, insurance-based health...
