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Not for very long. Like the Irish NHS,yours will change too
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So why did you all vote for it? Governments only do what their people let them away with, at least in a democracy that is the theory. Don't be so sure about that TB has to get relected and the only reason he is likely to is that the Tories are just as bad.
Change yes, as it has done over the years but if you think we would vote fpr a privatised health system i think you mistake the attitude of the British people. Most people here think it obscene that someone should be denied medical treatment somply because they are not rich. If someone wants to go privately they can but there is an innate sense of fair play, most think it unfair that you should be able to jump the queue just because you have more money. That's why PMI has never really taken off in this country its not the cost people think it unfair. Apart from that you are safer in an NHS hospital than you are going privately. At least you know the doctors are properly qualified and you will get proper care if things go wrong.
The NHS was not imposed on us by a socialist government it was something a socialist government was elected to put in place.
Post ww2 things were in the balance until the votes came in from the troops still abroad who were overwhelmingly in favour, they did not spend six years at war to came back to the same social situation they had before the war and they wanted change and for things to be better.
I think some american politicians use the S word to because they know it has such a pejorative impact that people stop thinking about what is being said. American commentators talk about our social welfare system as if it was something that we didn't choose to have but had foisted on us. Not so, its what the government should spend our taxes on. If it can't take care of the people then sod off.