I'm not bein gpartisan here, but speaking as someone from a country which has had a decaying, rotten and insanely corrupt National Health System for many decades, please don't look upon it as a cure-all. Stories have been rampant here, for many, many years, of ridiculous queues for even the most basic of emergency services (critical hip transplants waiting for more than a decade, being among the least alarming). Recent media stories, about breast cancer medicine being denied to NHS patients, simply because of money, are only the tip of the iceberg, over here. It eats up a horrid amount of money, yet it never goes on the actual patients. Only 'administrators' and the like. Being someone who recently had to wait with my mother in the inappropriately-titled 'accident and emergency' department, for many, many hours before being seen and turned away with only the most perfunctory (and unhelpful) of advice for something which needed urgent treatment, this is not something I would ever advise lightly.

I'm not sure what the answer is, in either of our countries, but if your own goes down our road, the situation isn't going to improve, sadly.

Basically, be careful what you wish for and make sure you know what the specifics of 'reform' are.