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I used to agree with this until i got private healthcare through my employer. My wife had been waiting 6 months for a referral and had been cancelled twice.
Once we got on the private healthcare figured we might as well use it. Had an appointment 3 days later with the same Dr who had cancelled her twice.
It's not saving resources for the nhs, it's extracting them. For all we know, she got cancelled because someone paying privately booked an appointment so got priority.
It goes to show how much we assume that there are infinite resources, as long as we can pay for them. But there are actual real limitations to manpower, equipment and natural resources. There is a massive difference between the whole pie getting bigger, and one person's share of it getting bigger.