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You'd be making a meaningful point if the market-based solution didn't also have some disastrous failure modes.

> In short, the NHS is more correctly seen as nationalised rather than socialised medicine, achieving the first three levels of a socialist health service identified here. It can be said to have socialist principles in the limited distributional sense and has some socialist means to achieve these.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10170226/

The study is from 1997, and the NHS has definitely changed in the 25 years since, arguably becoming more privatised since the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (among other decisions).

It's called starving the beast. A decades long deliberate policy of funding cuts which ultimately drives people into private care.

I'd still rather deal with that than the market driven system in the USA.

Btw, NHS is not socialism.

That's even worse! All the downsides and the workers don't even get to control the means of production.

The UK generally does somehow manage to hit the sweet spot of all the expense and duplicated effort of market solutions with all the remote decision making and political weaponisation of government solutions and get the worst aspects of them both.