We all know that the English system is crap. I even specifically mentioned tha the debate in the US has been skewed by the inability of American reporters to speak languages other than English and therefore only to concentrate on Anglo-speaking countries as examples. Germany, Japan and France all have superior systems. If I were in England I would want to have my children elsewhere as well - probably Germany.
By the way, as for "voluntarily" not having healthcare, it is like voluntarily not wearing a seat-belt. It may seem like freedom, but ultimately it is a result of a poor ability to judge risk and cost/benefit. Moreover, society as a whole has a vested interest in the health of its individual members. It is like "voluntarily" not going to school - that would save taxpayer money too, but would be bad for society.
First, congratulations to you and your wife!
Second, you wrote that:
"...Germany, Japan and France all have superior [health] systems..."
Well, if that chauvinistic assertion is true, then why-oh-why are the populations of those three countries in DECLINE (your personal contribution notwithstanding)? As an amateur gardener, I know very well that plants never stop growing because they enjoy superior "health". Indeed, Germany's low fertility rate is proof, in itself, that there is a serious health problem in Germany.
Could it be that, when you tax away 60% of the income of your young, healthy people to pay the health care costs of your older, less healthy people (and to pay for every other "worthy project" under the Sun), you also tax away their virility and puissance? Does any German care about this? Is any German even AWARE that Germany's slide into geopolitical irrelevance and demographic oblivion has already begun?
Or does the pied-piper's smug tune of "absolute moral superiority to America" create blindness as well as gullibility among "die deutsche Dickkoepfe"?
Certainly, watching the slow-motion suicide of a formerly great nation gives me no pleasure. On the other hand, your zeal for bashing America has become tiresome and deserves a direct response:
If you "think" that lobbing "cheap shots" at America will help to solve ANY of the problems that now portend Germany's demise, you need to "think again".