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@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ It is worth saying, for the avoidance of doubt, that none of the people I dealt
There is also a wider question here about the cost of making private care the only timely option. The official wait time we were quoted was twelve to twenty four months for the initial specialist appointment alone, before any surgery. In a young person, that delay is not neutral. It changes the kind of injury from a recoverable one to a chronic one, it lengthens the period of disability, it reduces the chance of return to sport, and it increases the lifetime cost of treatment. If the policy design of the compassionate release system is meant to relieve pressure on the public system by allowing families to go private, then the policy design of the tax and welfare systems is undermining that intent in the year that follows. There is also a wider question here about the cost of making private care the only timely option. The official wait time we were quoted was twelve to twenty four months for the initial specialist appointment alone, before any surgery. In a young person, that delay is not neutral. It changes the kind of injury from a recoverable one to a chronic one, it lengthens the period of disability, it reduces the chance of return to sport, and it increases the lifetime cost of treatment. If the policy design of the compassionate release system is meant to relieve pressure on the public system by allowing families to go private, then the policy design of the tax and welfare systems is undermining that intent in the year that follows.
In the end, I should have just gotten a personal loan. It would have cost me less than the tax and lost benefits combined. It is incredibally disappointing that this is the case in "World class Public Healther System" In the end, I should have just gotten a personal loan. It would have cost me less than the tax and lost benefits combined. It is incredibally disappointing that this is the case in "World Class Public Health System™"
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