Letter: Time to means test NHS treatment?

Letter: With the current cuts taking place, two areas have been ring-fenced: the NHS along with foreign aid and development. Why?

We are told on a daily basis that the NHS is top heavy and always has been, and you do have to question the volume of administrative staff and wasted money, etc. It may also be time to take a long, hard look at the NHS and perhaps it may be time for a change.

We should actually start to look at charging people who can afford it.

For minor procedures it is time to means test people who use the NHS in the modern UK.

It is also very odd how when the UK is in such a financial crisis we still send millions in foreign aid and development abroad. Why? It is doubtful that much of the money actually gets to its final destination.

If we take a good look at the list of the countries who receive it, we have Pakistan — a country that has nuclear weapons but needs to put the begging bowl out for aid from the UK.

Cameron has also said in the big scheme of things that the amount of money that goes out in foreign aid is small so should continue.

Well, if the country is in the terrible financial situation that the Con-Dems tell us it is in, then any good saver will tell you to rebuild your nest egg.

You have to account for every single penny and ask yourself: "Do I really need to give away or spend that money and do the recipients who are asking me for money get it from other areas or can they get it from other areas?

"And, finally, can we afford to give it?"

If we can't then we do not give until we can afford to.

Andrew Finch

Shrewsbury