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I've lived in countries with universal healthcare and the quality is sub-par compared to the US/private care.

I don't think anyone argues that a royal palace is not a good enough home, the complaint is that only a very very few can live in a royal palace and if that's the country's main form of housing, a lot of homeless people are unhappy with it. You can pay for private healthcare in the UK as well. Pay as much as you like and get as many specialists as you can afford. The NHS doesn't stop that from existing. The NHS is probably lower quality care than that. What the NHS is, is available to everyone. The NHS was built in the 1940s /after/ it was already possible for wealthy people to pay to visit doctors of their own choice. Somehow that didn't translate into healthcare for everyone back in the day, and I'm not aware of any good argument for why it magically will now if we turn the NHS private.(?)

Your elderly relatives in Canada can afford to travel internationally and pay private prices for health care .. so national health care should be dismantled? What about the millions of Canadians who can't afford that, and a long waiting list is better than nothing?