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And if these doctors and nurses were British then all their training has been payed for by British taxpayers. Yet they are then allowed to deplete the NHS by going to work in private medicine and increase the amount of time the people who payed for their training have to wait for treatment.
There was tremendous opposition to the establishment of the the NHS from consultants who feared losing their lucrative work treating the well off and who didn't give a damn about the poor. As a result we have the current system where they are also allowed to practice privately even though that clearly takes them away from the NHS.
The opposition to 'socialised' medicine in the US does not come from the general population; every poll shows huge support for a more equitable system. The opposition comes partly from idealogues but mostly from big business. Hence the scare stories about the NHS pedalled by their amoral PR slags.
Evidence again that there is a class war and it is a war being fought by the rich against the poor.