Premium Health Insurance Customers Could Enjoy Caviar Dinners

A regional director at a private healthcare company has insisted that the luxury health care market remains very much alive, despite the austerity measures being implemented across the UK. Elizabeth Sharp from BMI Healthcare says that private health care customers have a right to expect more from a hospital room than someone receiving treatment on the National Health Service .

The BMI Weymouth Hospital in London is a prime example of luxury healthcare, with 17 luxury ensuite rooms consisting of oak floors, mahogany furniture, original artwork, surround sound Hi-Fi, plasma TVs and the finest cotton linen. The food isn’t bad either, with the resident chef specialising in beluga caviar.

While the idea of private healthcare is vulgar to some liberally-positioned minds, Zack Cooper, Health Economist at the London School of Economics, claims that patients have a right to choose private treatment, but the premium should be for luxury rooms rather than better health care.

While BMI are hoping to attract millionaires and celebrities, the treatment is available to anyone with health insurance, though only the most exclusive private medical insurance policies are likely to provide policyholders with this standard of treatment.