That's what has always annoyed me.
I have a friend who needs some dental work done, urgently - but because she can't afford it, she is in a lot of pain.

Wankers.
( Leningrad twitter.com/takebacks, Wed 26 Oct 2005, 2:35, archived)

Well
the trick would be to take that part of your income which in this country would be taken away from you whether you like it or not and spent on the NHS, and put it into your private health insurance instead.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Wed 26 Oct 2005, 2:40, archived)

Haha, you deleted the argument for a welfare state.
Very sensible. I could give you the standard free-market libertarian schtick, but I think we'd both prefer it if I just went to bed.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Wed 26 Oct 2005, 3:12, archived)