If I had been in the UK, I would have died.There are and they aren't, depends on what needs done. Also, depends if the hospital staff stole the surgical equipment that was needed for your operation, that has now had to be cancelled.
Now, if I said, "Just pay privately", someone could say, "Folk can't afford to do that". But we pay half in tax on healthcare compared to the US system. So that just means, those folk who can't afford half healthcare obviously can not afford America's healthcare.
Neither system is perfect, but I tell you what, give me the UK's health system anyday of the week rather than America's.
I'm alive because I was here in the US.
So I will happily disagree with yiu.