And yet every British facebook friend I have defends it bitterly.
Maybe because whilst it has faults, some minor, some clearly major, it isn’t the third world hellish system Americans think it is?. Maybe those silly Brits actually use it daily, weekly, yearly and can see the NHS as a whole, just not what FR or Burch Barlow III tells em on talkie radio.
A friend from Winnipeg defended the Canadian system years ago. At the time his children were small, and like other children, they had their share of minor illnesses, bumps and bruises, plus they needed the usual immunizations. Canada's health system provided all that at no direct cost to him. Of course, he was paying for his children's care and probably to care for a slew of deadbeats and their children in the form of high sales and other taxes, but he thought it was worthwhile.
The children are grown now and on their own, and my friend is getting older with the usual maladies associated with aging. He complains about waiting long periods to see a doctor and worries that one day, the lack of attention will kill him. I'm not sure he's so happy about national health care now.
#4 I had a British co-worker say the same and he also denied the rationing even when I showed him stories from British papers saying people were being killed for lack of care.