My recent experience of the UK National Health Service (long post)

[Letum]

I have had nothing but the best service I could want from the NHS; none
of which I could afford otherwise.

It is obscene that there are still affluent countries in which life and health
are things that are bought by those that have the money and forfeit for
those who don't, due to their own mistake or, more often, innocent
misfortune.