I'm glad we agree, Devil away! :)
Actually, I am one of those personal responsibility types and would advocate for some kind of insurance based system that took into account lifestyle (I don't support either the UK system nor the crazy implementation in the US).
I know that's usually painted as every man for themselves but I advocate for it because I think general health would increase as would availability of care.
Regardless, whichever system we pick, my ideal or any of the current ones, denying people care based on this ill-considered and heavily politicised public "good" is an anathema to all of them. I don't think these people are biological nor social determinists, they seem more religious, like a puritanical temperance movement or something just as sinister.