Will the UK NHS (National Health Service) be free at the point of use by 2035?

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This means there is no up front fee, no subscription, no insurance requirements. Someone with no money or bank account should be able to receive non-emergency care without needing to pay.

This does not include the existing low fees some people pay for prescriptions, dentistry, opticians, and similar things in place today (4/1/23).

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What if the NHS is a more stripped down system by 2035 and it's mandatory that residents are also covered with private healthcare insurance?

Like the NHS is still free, but a lot of the care is delivered by the private healthcare system? And there is a special state insurance scheme for people who can't afford to pay for insurance?

"Someone with no money or bank account should be able to receive non-emergency care without needing to pay."

This muddies the water on this market quite a bit. Many countries (even America!) have free healthcare for the truly destitute.

Absent that I would be putting manna on NO here because I think it is very likely that additional fees are introduced (eg a charge for missed appointments, the option to co-pay for weight loss injections for those not otherwise eligible, etc) but I think that people with "no money in their pocket" will be exempted from these charges. It will be those with "some money in their pocket" who are hit with these.

I have made an equivalent market for 2030:

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