{"id":243997,"date":"2025-07-07T00:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T00:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/243997\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T00:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T00:49:12","slug":"reform-unlikely-to-introduce-insurance-based-health-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/243997\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform unlikely to introduce insurance-based health system"},"content":{"rendered":"

Labour’s UK care spokesperson Stephen Kinnock said the comments were confirmation that Reform “would look to charge patients for their healthcare”. <\/p>\n

Farage called for a debate on an insurance-based system<\/a> when he was leader of UKIP back in 2015. <\/p>\n

But Reform’s 2024 general election promised an NHS free at the point of use alongside “major reforms”.<\/p>\n

In January this year, in a separate interview with LBC, he was asked if he was open to a “French-style insurance model for the NHS”.<\/p>\n

He replied that he did not want to “absolutely mimic the French system, but let’s have a deeper broader thing”.<\/p>\n

He added “if we could get a more efficient better funding model, provided we give free care at the point of delivery, I am prepared to consider anything”. <\/p>\n

State healthcare in France is not generally free – costs are covered by a combination of statutory insurance funded through the tax system, supplementary private insurance and patients contributing through co-payments.<\/p>\n

If any proposals to change the NHS funding model were to emerge they would be more likely in the party’s manifesto for the next UK general election, expected in 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour’s UK care spokesperson Stephen Kinnock said the comments were confirmation that Reform “would look to charge patients…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-243997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114809206395402227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}