It's far from perfect. But if you're sick, you don't have to worry that your insurance premium will crash through the roof. To use a personal example; I'm in security.
If a bunch of thugs decide to do a team-up against me, I know I won't be bankrupted or have a debt that will last the rest of my life... We do have repeated delays. This is often the result of poor management. Various governments, right-wing and left, have both tried their hands at addressing the problems.
Neither has had much success but the service is still operative and nearly everybody would be outraged at the possibility of getting rid of it. Denying treatment to the elderly is definitely a bunch of BS.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.