What can you tell us Yanks about Healthcare in the UK

Oh come ON!

As for comparing the army to the NHS.....that's a no brainer...i suppose you could choose not to pay for the army and then you would have to accept that we would have absolutely no defence.

Wrong. I believe we would instead have 'market driven' private defence contractors like Blackwater, who would, like Blackwater, proceed to murder, rape and pillage their way through foreign lands with gay (market driven?) abandon.

We all choose to pay for an army for obvious reasons. that's a bit of a no brainer.

Presumably to stop those damn Huns from invading again?

Or is it to help 'us' secure a bunch of foreign natural resources that we have no justifiable claim to in order to save our delicious 'market driven' energy companies some multi-millions that they will promptly feel no 'market driven' obligation to pass on to us, the poor consumer, not to mention undercut any 'market-drive' to produce/develop/invest in green energy?

And those multi-billion pound aircraft carriers that cost £80 million a year to run? I, for one, could not sleep without knowing they were sailing around all The World's famous Oceans protecting me from the bad guys. Somewhere.

Ahem.

As for motorways, by all means don't pay for them but then please don't use them.

Yes. And... as for private health insurance plans: by all means pay for them, but when your private clinician refers you to an NHS hospital for every operation more complex than a tonsillectomy, by all means, tell him to fuck off.