All good questions, but irrelevant to the point you are refuting. With a public health system, medical care is tied to the country's wealth - not to any indivi

All good questions, but irrelevant to the point you are refuting. With a public health system, medical care is tied to the country's wealth - not to any individual. In my country, a government body negotiates with the drug companies on behalf of the entire country. That does indeed mean that some drugs are not funded - e.g new cancer drugs can take some time, or maybe never be publicly provided. But what will (should) never happen under the public system is that a poor person is denied equivalent medical treatment to a wealthy person. For people who want access to a higher level of care - there's private health insurance. Many have it, and use it, but anyone without it is provided the same base level of care, including free hospital treatment, available to everyone else.