Britain has had a national health service for almost 80 years now. It's a long-standing issue.

And so all healthcare is basically purchased by the government. And that means that there's only so

much money to pay for everybody. And when that amount of money runs out, there's basically no

more money for treatment. The things that most people use are actually cheap and free.

The problem is if you get seriously ill,

if you have a major form of cancer,

you don't know until you have that form of cancer

that's quite seriously advanced.

The cutting-edge treatments are just not going to be available.

And that's where the government starts trimming and cutting

and just

not covering things. If you need major surgery, if you need a neurosurgeon, they're just long,

long waiting lists. You could be waiting for the best part of a year for surgery. And it's not

like waiting for having a piece of furniture to be delivered. That's a bit annoying. It's a bit of

inconvenience. But if you're waiting for surgery because you have cancer, while you're waiting,

which could be months, your condition could be getting worse. You have months of anxiety. You have

serious problems that are going to be occurring because you're unable to work.

Waiting less sounds kind of bad in the abstract, but it's a real, real problem.

It's frankly really cruel to people who are most seriously ill.

The treatment, like the financing would be there and they would be willing to pay for it.

People are willing to pay

more for better access to health care. And under single payer systems like Britain, they basically

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