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On the other hand, having full-on free health care might be nice if it turns out that a round trip to England costs less than a long-term medical problem under your US health insurance. Plus you'd get a free vacation out of it.

Depends on what the problem is.... you couldn't rely on booking a holiday and having it sorted during that period, even if you had a cast-iron guarantee that you were booked in. It is fairly common for non-emergency surgery to be cancelled anything up to five minutes prior to the surgery itself, usually due to staff shortages.

Then you have to escape MRSA! My next door neighbour went in for a pacemaker and got it all along the operation wound. He did recover after a month or so but died a month later - we all think it did knock him back substantially and must have played a part in his death.

Gareth