Hollande managed to dispatch the personal questions in a few simple but firm sentences, stating that he was "indignant" over this invasion of his privacy, that "private matters should be treated privately," and that he would say nothing more about it.
Good hospitals will get greater autonomy, and more NHS patients will be treated privately.
In 1998-99, spending on publicly funded patients treated privately was only about 5% of total expenditure on the NHS.
Individuals rather than the NHS would buy private-sector operations.Mr Howard argues that the 300,000 people without health insurance who are treated privately pay twice under the current system.
Had she chosen to be treated privately in Wales she says she would paid around £12,500 and would have been unable to reclaim any of it.
For example, men treated privately might have fewer or less important co-morbidities or be fit for surgery.
Thus these costs could have been substantially higher if more cases were treated privately in Australia and could vary substantially in other populations.
Fewer patients in the most deprived areas were treated privately by the managing consultant (22 vs 36%), which effectively means that they did not have private health insurance.
Although none of these factors were significantly associated with prolonged LOS, it is possible that men treated privately might differ from those treated publicly in other ways that do impact LOS.
No management information was available for some individuals as they could not be identified in HES (because, for instance, they were treated privately or died without receiving any treatment) and were included in a separate category.
