Well for all its stumbling around and fucking up, useless managers that love titles or politicians that try and win votes with it, the NHS here in the UK is a damn good system. I get private healthcare through work but only very basic. It has been more then enough through the years. I was planning on increasing my premiums when I'm around 35 in a few years. That was until I got kidney stones in August. Hospitalisation isn't covered in my plan. So I had to go NHS or face paying up to £1000 a night (for a bed and airplane food). I must say the NHS service was SUPERB. Seeing I unfortunately had to have surgery (suckers were about 15mm each) I expected weeks of waiting for an opening. Try 2 days. I also had to have scans which could take up to a week. Try an hour. The food was awesome, menu included with good choice, medication for pain prompt. Each ward had a doctor that made his/her rounds hourly. Morale under the nurses and doctors was great, hospital was super clean and modern. The Hampstead Royal Free was the hospital by the way.
Before I left the hospital 2 days later I was given pain pills with prompt instructions and had a few follow up calls and letters to insure I was ok. I was even offered a consultation with a specialist to make sure there were now long term damage. All this for ... Well, the negligible amount I pay monthly for my National Insurance.
I might hold off raising my private premiums for a while.