The British do NOT have 'free health care'.... it is free at the point of delivery. I can only assume that the person who thinks it is 'free' is either unemployed or stupid.
My husband has a friend from Great Britain who has diabetes. The friend, John, used to keep up a running litany of bitches about how much his diabetic supplies cost him in deductibles under his health insurance, and how much better it was in England, where it was free. Finally, my husband's patience ran out and he pointed out to his friend that when you consider the taxes he used to pay in Great Britain, he's actually spending the same amount on his health care here as he did there. He's just spending it at a different point in the process.
Here in America, should the point in that process be when that individual is out of work, with no insurance, he may well get no supplies at all. Yes, you have to pay for your health care, one way or another. But the way we pay is so backward that we pay twice as much as many for a poorer product.
Poorer product? you silly ass.