By the way, I called a private medical insurance company (get the insurance from work) for the first time of my life a couple of days ago. What a revolting experience! Feel so sorry for Americans to have to put up with that.
I was so put off by the experience that I decided to use the NHS (state healthcare) after all for this checkup. I keep meaning to use this private insurance but it never seems to make any sense.

Now is the perfect time to rise up and take back your country.
@Nerms -- So are you actually saying you are a communist and you are in favour of a workers revolution against the capital? Hmmm..... Well, good for you
If this is true... please start at home!

That's the "heart" of world capitalism... if you can topple the head of the snake then the rest of the world would follow quickly...And thanks to the Russian experiment you'd have a pretty good idea of some things NOT to do... (and some things which were good and can be used again).

But why worry about Russia when your own country is the most aggressively imperialist & capitalist country on earth? In which millions cannot get decent healthcare or a job and where the government is effectively in the hands of corporate lobbyists, where aggressive wars are started on a regular basis and tax payers money are used to bail out banks and pay the bankers bonus..
So, my dear comrade.. Start the revolutionary struggle on your own side of the Atlantic first..