In the UK, you can do whatever you want, no matter how irresponsible it is and you get free healthcare.
The UK has some extremely dangerous events, like the cheese roll, where you throw yourself down a mountainside to roll after a log of cheese, in hopes of winning £35 worth of cheese. The NHS averages about £60,000 per year in medical bills from that one stupid event, not counting on-scene medics and ambulances.
I currently have a broken thumb. There is a loose floating chunk of bone at the top knuckle and a fracture at the 2nd knuckle. All I got was a soft neoprene wrap that doesn't cover the top knuckle. Same thing a few years ago when I broke my wrist. No cast because they didn't have the staff to do it.
I was nearly killed by a severe ear infection. If I didn't have private insurance, I would have died.
I have permanent nerve damage in both lower arms because my GP refused to refer me for 20 months, claiming I was only sleeping wrong, causing both arms to be numb. He went on vacation and his temp replacement immediately referred me, but it was too late, the damage was permanent.
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