Healthcare

A big concern I have is that in the UK we spend only half as much as we ought to on healthcare. The problem is that people don’t see a direct benefit to them in paying more income tax to finance it.
One solution is to encourage more health screening, but not by law like MOTs for cars. In fact we often spend a lot more maintaining our cars than ourselves, and when they pack up you can buy a new one.
So getting a two-yearly health assessment like I did yesterday seems like a no-brainer. I seem to be in pretty good shape, but they don’t let you off the hook that easily.
One of a couple additional tests suggested was an electron beam tomography (EBT). It detects any furring of the coronary arteries, which can to heart attacks -- the cause of death for a third of all British men. So the £500 cost, say every five years, seems reasonable.