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> the NHS does provide excellent care, but it's not free. The fact that the British won't come to terms with this is causing its collapse:

This is complete nonsense. The British public knows very well that the HNS is (or was) and should be "free at point of use", and also paid for via tax. The public want it and want it well funded. The current British political establishment does not like this state of things and seeks to privatise it, but due to the popularity of the NHS, cannot just come out and and say it.

"That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital."