The NHS is one of the greatest things we've invented in the UK. It's not always perfect but everyone uses it at some point, some more than others that's just the nature of illness. You may not have had to use it yet, but one day you or your family might and if that happens you'll be glad it's there.

Thanks to the NHS we don't have stories like this one http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/164436/boy_dies_fro...

I gladly pay my taxes for things like the NHS, my taxes are spent on far worse things thats for sure.

I happily pay my taxes, exactly so that someone like Mary can get the required treatment. Hardly any individual can carry the costs of such medical investigations and operations.

Yes, I certainly know how lucky I am to live in a country with a nationalised health service. And I am eternally grateful to the rest of the population who have contributed to my healthcare via their taxes. I know that if I live to be a hundred, the taxes I pay won't get close to covering the cost.

I can only speak for myself, but I'm glad some of my taxes get spent of things like this, even if I were never to benefit, it's still an absolute good.

Yeah, but it's still a fraction of what we pay in the US where the insurance industry takes a nice chunk :-P