Comment by necovek

Indeed, however it is big part of the culture and people do not see it as such (when people complain about corruption here, I just ask them if they've done something like this in the past, and they shut up or say how everyone does it — for those of us who feel internal shame even thinking of doing this, we get left behind).

But I did hear good things about UK public health system as being one of the best working public healthcare systems, even if no system is perfect.