As a point of anecdata, my dad, an American, lived in Wales the last ten years of his life. His arthritis got too bad for him to work, and the NHS took excellen

As a point of anecdata, my dad, an American, lived in Wales the last ten years of his life. His arthritis got too bad for him to work, and the NHS took excellent care of him for years. Then he had cardiac issues and although his NHS doctor recommended heart surgery, they didn't schedule the procedure for several months and he died of a heart attack in the meantime (age 62). Public healthcare took great care of him and then it killed him. Hard not to be ambivalent about that (though n.b. this is not an endorsement of the US system by any means).