After weeks of speculation, the Brits have discovered the shameful truth: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has indeed used private health care in the past. The conservative head of the United Kingdom has been quick to add that he has always been registered with a National Health Service (NHS) general practitioner and that his family has received "fantastic care" from an NHS hospital in his constituency, but that isn't keeping British people from thinking him a hypocrite.
To American observers, the story is a total snoozefest. So the British P.M. received care from a private entity—what's the big deal? U.S. politicians go to private providers all the time. But in the U.K., people would rather everyone get equal access to bad care than risk some people obtaining better care because they can afford it.
