This may be tangential but the NHS is not without some sickening expenses. The costs are just opaque and hidden but ultimately taxpayers are paying for £300 for a stainless steel bucket for patients to pee in thanks to bureaucracy and government contracrs. (that figure is pre 20s inflation)

So every month the government siphons off 40-45% of your income and donates a lot of it to Big Healthcare. So a case of being damned if you do and damned if you don't...