Entitled to NHS care

sir – Dr Anthony Hawks (Letters, July 29) suggests that those who decline to be vaccinated should be made to take out health insurance to cover the cost of their care should they contract Covid-19. By this logic, the obese should pay for their diabetic care and the smokers for the treatment of their lung cancers. Declining to treat people in the NHS because of their lifestyle choices is a very slippery slope. Dr Irving Wells

Yelverton, Devon