So wait a minute.......
If it’s national health care, free for all, then why are they being charged?
Isn’t the point of national health care for FREE health care?
It's free for all resident citizens, i.e., they have to Be UK citizens and living in the UK. My wife is a British National, born and raised there, raised a family there, worked there, even qualified for a government pension like our Social Security but when she moved to America to live with me the NHS dropped her. She would go to visit her children and grandchildren for 1 month per year and she had to buy travel insurance in case she got sick while she was over there.