I'd be a nice start. Certainly when keeping in mind that life-expectancy and average quality of physical health of the British is significantly higher than the same of average Americans. On the other hand, the Dutch seem to take the (medical) Cake where it comes to a hybrid Private/National healthcare system. Of course I am biased, being Dutch and all of that, but having lived there for close to forty years and now nearly 15 years in America I have had the opportunity to compare both systems. It baffles me to notice that so many Americans willy-nilly choose and rabidly cling to the system that costs the average (health-insurance covered) American at twice as much for less than half of the service and quality thereof as compared with most European healthcare systems (and that presently includes most of the Former Soviet Block countries!!!).