In the UK we have two types of healthcare. Public and private, I have used them both but I prefer the public. Why, because it's free? Free, all my working life I have had large amounts of money taken out of my pay even before I have seen it. I cannot stop it, it is not income tax, it's incase I need medical treatment. The money that is stopped out of my pay each month is more than the average Americans pay for medical insurance. If I want to go private I still get a great big chunk taken out of my pay, then I have to pay again for private treatment. So if I decide I want, or need to speed up the healing process I have to pay the highest price in the universe. It's like owning your own house then having to pay rent on top. Public health in the UK is a money tree, you may not have ever had treatment but as sure as night is night you are paying for the privalege to be healthy all your life.
Just to confuse the issue, if the Public service is too busy to treat you for whatever reason the public sector pay the private sector to treat you, so the money we pay towards the public sector, which we have no choice but to pay, is given to the private sector by the public sector. Healthcare cannot lose.
Now you Americans have it very easy. You take out an insurance, which is nowhere near as much as we pay for our free service, and you get treated like a god when you are ill. In the UK if you are ill people look at you as if you are a freeloader.
This was supposed to be a rant but the rant would not let me upload my picture. The rave, happily uploaded my picture so I am raving under false pretences. Mr Rant and Mr Rave get you uploading picture act together.