Dr Phillip Lee: ‘Eat doughnuts for breakfast? Pay for your own health care’

Dr Phillip Lee comments in the Mirror

 

Patients with diseases caused by their lifestyle must pay for health care, a Tory MP urged yesterday. Dr Phillip Lee said sufferers of type 2 diabetes and similar illnesses should lose their right to free prescriptions to save the NHS from collapse, the Daily Mirror reported. He told an Institute of Economic Affairs briefing: “If you want to have doughnuts for breakfast, fine, but there is a cost implication down the line.”

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