Where do you live? That’s certainly not my experience in the Netherlands. Of course we have expensive health care because our center right government believed in privatizing everything, but it’s still way better than the US. Source: born American, currently Dutch.
Haha okay that explains it. The UK counts as Europe about as much as Turkey or Russia does… which is to say yes you’re on the same continental plate, but beyond that…
Anyway, your government has been aggressively underfunding the NHS for ages. It’s hardly a surprise if it’s shit.