Gotta love people whipping out the UK like they've totally got their shit together. I've never been there but if half the stuff I hear about their government being a bunch of nosy nannies, I certainly would never want to live there.
"Yep, no problem, free as the air!
....you just have to wait six months...and get mediocre care....and pray the doctors don't strike in the mean time....and it's kinda sorta not actually free because you paid for it out of your taxes and the politicos took a nice big chunk out of it....
Wait a minute, what was the big advantage of the UK's system again?"