I was born and raised in the UK, moved to Canada with my family, then moved to the US.
If you think their health care "systems" offer any advantage to ours, I'll be happy to buy you a one way ticket so you may avail yourselves of them.
Horror stories? Yeah, pretty much every visit with the NHS was a horror story. My mother almost died, then they used non-dissolving sutures internally and she developed abcesses. They did, in fact, yank out some of my teeth because the wait time for a filling was months, but they could do an extraction today. People do get amputations for diabetes rather than treatment. When my father needed back surgery, he saved up and paid out of pocket, halfway across the country.
Canada's system worked great, until the bills came due. Now it's literally months or years for non-critical care, and a great number of them drive down here for surgery.
I'd be willing to start a civil war before any of that crap catches hold in this country.
