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having the NHS there puts a cap on the price the private sector can charge

generally the NHS is fantastic once you've been placed on the correct conveyor in the factory

however getting to that point can be an absolutely dreadful experience

I don't know how you fix this problem

I don't live in the UK, and I've never experienced anything "medical" in the UK outside of buying aspirin at an ASDA, so I'm kind of speaking out of my ass here.

That said, it seems like having "free" competition would make it so that the private costs don't get crazy?

It probably helps although private medicine is fairly expensive here. Like a hip replacement is ~£14k. Some people save money by going abroad to say Lithuania or Thailand where the costs are like 1/3.

And socialized medicine solves many of the employment-dependent privatized medicine problems! Funny world.