“In promoting some to the front of the queue, it pushes others further to the back of the queue  — often people with high health care needs.”

Queue-jumping is frowned upon in normal life situations. How come we accept circumstances where money allows
some people to queue — jump (irrespective of their actual health needs), whereas the poor (with their high health care needs) are forced to wait and suffer?

This state of affairs makes some of us ashamed. It is not compatible with good human values.

“……no society can legitimately itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.
Society becomes more wholesome, more serene, and spiritually healthier, if it knows that its citizens have at the back
of their consciousness the knowledge that not only themselves, but all their fellows, have access, when ill, to the best that medical skill can provide”.
Aneurin Bevan UK Health Minister (regarding the foundations of the NHS in 1948)

The private health industry promote lower waiting times.. but where is the evidence? There is no way to know if we are getting what we pay for.

It’s a textbook response: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt