It's important to note that nationalised healthcare doesn't preclude you from paying for services privately. Unlike with insurance-based systems, you just find

It's important to note that nationalised healthcare doesn't preclude you from paying for services privately. Unlike with insurance-based systems, you just find out the prices up front, and if you like the price and can afford it, then you pay it. Plenty of people in the UK pay for cosmetic surgery and the like. > The government passed a law banning prescription of puberty blockers for kids This is completely independent of how health care is paid for. It might happen that a similar law is passed in the US, and the same would apply over there, private health insurance or not.