The NHS is not perfect (as some of your tales of woe cherry-picked from right-wing newspapers suggest), but its core mission is essentially that of compassion a

The NHS is not perfect (as some of your tales of woe cherry-picked from right-wing newspapers suggest), but its core mission is essentially that of compassion and fairness: to provide medical care to each member of the population regardless of their financial circumstances. Any health care system that does not aspire to that ideal is by its very nature horrendously biased against the poor. (By the way, you should be more careful with the articles you choose to believe. For example, the research cited in the one titled "NHS death rates four times higher than US" did not show any such thing - it was a comparison between one UK and one US hospital, on a relatively tiny cohort of 1000 patients, showing a mere 7.5% difference in post-operative death rate. It is ridiculous to extrapolate this data to the entire health care systems of two countries. This is typical of Daily Mail spin on such research - you'd be much better off not citing that newspaper at all due to its inherent bias against the NHS.)