user110782-
So if you broke your leg you wouldn't call an ambulance, just crystal therapy and homeopathy? If you needed medication you'd check webMD and then order it online from Canada? And you're innoculating your own children with homemade vaccines? Also if you're somehow intimating that you're private healthcare only, if anything serious happens to you - cancer, hospitalisation, emergency C-section: all that is on the NHS. It's the giant infrastructure on which all the optional private health operates on top of, and the safety net over which you and the rest of the UK live.
And all those kids not robbing your house because they are in school learning to be responsible people? All those clients and friends that know how to read and do maths to correctly pay your invoices, where do you think they learned those skills? There is a myriad of ways you directly benefit from state schools that have nothing to do with you or your kids attending them. It's the same way you use the police and criminal justice system even if you're not down at the copshop reporting a stolen breadmaker - it's also all that peace and law and order and social accountability you've been enjoying. This self-interested perspective on what you 'get' as a member of society vs what you're putting in via tax is the attitude I'm addresssing.
@Chalfie can you translate what I'm trying to say in a nice way if you have moment
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youramericanlover
I don't have much to say about payment thresholds for who should or shouldn't be excluded in this package, but I will say this 'Don't use the NHS or public education' is both awful attitude to have as human being and also factually untrue for a number of reasons.