Yes people, your eyes do not deceive you. I didn’t say atrocious, or awful, or ludicrous, or diabolical; and I’m on about the National Health Service—one of England’s finest attributes and source of great controversy for a great many years.

Ask yourself, how absurd would this idea sound if you stood up tomorrow in a big hall filled with important people and put this to the politicians at the front behind the microphones: “Here here, I have a wondrous idea–A way to help every man, woman and child in this land for free–”—groaning from crowd, laughter from politicians—“–I propose we invest many millions of pounds in a scheme to allow anyone with an injury or illness to be treated without paying anything!”

Absurd! You’d be laughed out of town. There’s tax on everything these days. You can barely get out of bed without incurring some kind of cost to yourself or loved ones.

And many other countries think the idea of the NHS–a free organization which I believe actually does an outstanding job–is absurd, too: America isn’t the only place where you have no choice but to sell all your non-vital organs and one of your least favorite children to get your teeth looked at; Germany and many other countries also have no equivalent of the NHS and unlikely ever will; health insurance costs in Europe can be as much as 300 smackers a month and in the U.S., grand-daddy of health insurance unfairness since the dawn of time, it can run into the thousands.

Because of this many people simply don’t have health insurance–something which us English take for granted. Those injured in sporting accidents are made to pay back the money for the rest of their life, incurring debts which are handed down to future generations in some cases.

All hail the NHS! Yes, it has its problems, and it has its occasional massive wrong doings, but let it be around for a long time to come.

Speaking of all this, I really need to look into insurance for that Secondary education job that I jot got overseas. Yes, you heard me! America here I come!