Or maybe do it like Aus, life threatening/serious health issues treated brilliantly by the public sector but you are encouraged to use private insurance for far less serious problems (ie long wait times). Combine this an element of being initially charged up front by many GPS (can be reclaimed later) and you have wheedled out a huge proportion of those who do not actually need a doctor but clog up the system. Can only say that so far I have been very impressed by health provision over here, puts the NHS to shame.Only the Tories will convince you it can't: because they want to privatise it.
The UK without an NHS is a horrifying thought.
In the USA, 500,000 families a year go bankrupt due to medical bills. Imagine that? Nice house, car, money for holidays.. all gone because you got cancer and didn't have the correct insurance.