Well, I just read
this awesome story. It makes me feel so honoured to have worked with these people.
There is not an insurance company on the planet that would allow a radiologist and a surgeon to perform this procedure, when it had never been done in the UK before. The costs don't even bear thinking about.
But when you look at the picture of the patient and her husband, and think about the possible consequences of this procedure, or its absence, in their life and their family's, thank God the NHS is here and willing to do this. Because these two don't look like the kind of folk who'd have top-notch insurance. But imagine leaving this lady to die because she couldn't afford to pay. Or their family being burdened with many lifetimes' worth of debt - for a diagnostic procedure, before treatment has even started.
Think on. Do we really pay enough for this kind of service? I really don't think so.