Ironically, Brexit passed at least in part because they said it would leave more money for their universal health plan. Which has been struggling, though remains popular.

The devil is always in the details though: where you get money and what it's spent on. Not just that a lot is spent, or, not spent, for that matter.

I think the finer details tend to get overlooked, especially in public discourse, by the philosophical heirs of Malthus and Mises both.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)