What can you tell us Yanks about Healthcare in the UK

Let put it this way;

I'm profoundly deaf, my parents would've already spend ten of thousand of pounds on me before I turn into a teenager, particually on hearing aids, which cost shitloads, the NHS allowed my then struggling family to be able to not go into debt.

look at the price list for hearing aids;

I tend to get them replaced almost yearly ever since I was a child, my current one cost £1,800 given to me free by the NHS.

this is why my family move back to the UK from America (they lived there for two years before my father knocked my mother up in St Louis.