The UK's socialised healthcare and welfare

I've never used it as a flex myself. The NHS does amazing things but they are under resourced. It's true that the waiting times can be problematic, even for very serious conditions particularly when there's a backlog such as after Covid. Private healthcare is available but expensive. It's increasingly hard to find any dentists who will take NHS patients, so much so that some people are resorting to extracting their own teeth. It's not a perfect system by any means. Yet we are still lucky to have it. Is it better than the system in America? That would depend on who you ask and how you define better. What I will say is that if you have a sudden, life threatening emergency then you will be treated and you won't have to be worrying about who is paying for your treatment. You won't be denied treatment until somebody pays. You will be treated. You will be kept in hospital until you are fit to go home. So it's not the worst system.