Unlike you, I actually have experience of the NHS, and for the most part, they provide a decent service. I suffer from epilepsy, and thanks to the NHS I am entitled to free prescriptions to treat this chronic condition, even when I was unemployed and looking for work. If I couldn’t afford the drugs, I couldn’t even have been able to work, so Id have been on the scrapheap and living in chronic poverty. They could do better, but for people who can’t afford private healthcare, being on a waiting list is better than being refused treatment at all because your insurance company refuses to pay for it or you don’t have insurance because you lost your job or you developed an expensive health problem and the insurance company deems you no longer profitable to insure. Private healthcare in the US is amazing, but for those who aren’t rich or well insured, you aren’t going to enjoy anything like that level of service.
But it sounds like you enjoy being a ward of the state, so it's all good.
II worked in the NHS in Britain a few decades ago. Please don’t pretend that those on the dole get the same level of health care as those who have money. We HAD the best health care system on the planet. That has fallen by the wayside as doctors have so much more paperwork to do for the Government now, they cannot see as many patients. Obamacare was implemented to give INSURANCE to those who didn’t have it. But those who didn’t have insurance had Medicaid. They had HEALTH CARE, just not insurance. I watched my British father-in-law deteriorate at home with a health aide visiting once a week to change his dressings. He needed to be in the hospital, but the NHS didn’t want that expense, did they? And when the family could no longer give him the care he needed at home, he had to go into a care home,which of course was not covered by the NHS. I watched as people died with disease that had been diagnosed by tests, but no one told them the result, so they didn’t return for care. Please, we HAD the best medicine in the USA. Sadly, that will no longer be the case when Obamacare has had the time to completely destroy it.