Young people want to get their shit sorted. This has been the playbook for years, starve the NHS of funds, allow private in to take over, soon enough we have the US health insurance hellscape they are trying to overhaul.

My wife needed her gall bladder removed. She had many gallstones that were causing her extreme pain, which needed many trips to A&E to get Morphine based pain killers to deal with. Mind you, she has a very high pain threshold. The NHS waiting time for the removal was 2-3 years.

Fortunately I have private family health insurance through work, so we went with that route. The time from referral, to having the operation was 4 weeks.

4 weeks of pain vs 2-3 years... it's easy to see why people prefer private.