General Discussion

Everyone gets free healthcare in the UK. But if you need something that is not considered urgent, such as a hip replacement, you will be placed on a waiting list that can be many months long. If you have money and are willing to pay, however, you can be treated without delay. In Canada it's a bit different; there, to skip the line you need to be prepared to pay to travel to the US and then pay for private healthcare once you are there.

I think it's pretty unrealistic to aspire to a system where Warren Buffet is treated identically to someone with no money. But I would be ecstatic if we could have a tax-funded single payer system that gave everyone in the country something like an Obamacare Bronze plan for free, where people could pay money to upgrade to a higher level of plan if they wished.