I agree that most doctors are useless in many ways.

However, they do sometimes help people. $300 to fix a broken leg is a lot of money if you are unemployed and don't know where your next meal is coming from. Here you would get that mended for free on the NHS.

I am unapologetically socialist in my outlook and I feel that as a society of moral human beings (yes, even those of us who are not Christian), we have a duty to make sure that the basic needs of the less fortunate are met. Often their circumstances are not their fault and they do not want to be stuck there. Do we show them some care or do we let them fester in the gutter because they didn't pull themselves up by their own bootstraps?

If we abandon all responsibility to the society in which we belong, declare that taxes are evil, that access to health care is not a fundamental right, then we will end up with no society at all. I have many, many complaints about the system and the people who invented and run it. But I support it where it supports people who cannot otherwise support themselves.