Its important for people to understand the proper context here that this has nothing to do with public healthcare, and everything to do with privatization. As the UK continues to privatize things will become more and more like other shitty privatized heath systems; i.e., the waits will be much longer, and people will regularly die in hospital lobbies when they can't pay $10M upfront for treatment.
Stories like this area why the US will never accept a public health care system like the NHS.