Originally Posted by
Niall_Quinn
Plenty of people actually believe healthcare is free in this country, especially young people. If you explain it to them they say, well yes, you pay in taxes. But that immediate perception is still there as a norm. And if you look at some of the contributors above, they are extremely low information individuals. So I'm not sure it's right to make the assumption they understand the basics.
The real question is not now expensive the vaccine will be, it will be very, very expensive, it's what will be cut from the health budget to compensate. Anyone who thinks that won't be done has obviously missed most of what has happened in the last year. Virtually everything non Covid was slashed, to the point where many people have and will die. So we'll pay for this vaccine twice, as one of the posters above points out.