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I am angry and appalled by the media and their willingness to give the loudest voice to those who are against the proposed change to a system of free health care in the United States. I read so many stories that are simply not true, many of them asking the British NHS (National Health Service ).

Some recent writings describe a system in which the government plays God to decide who lives and who dies. While it may be true that under the NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) system is not all new treatments can be developed, but there is a balance rather than the state of deadly enemies of reform are there to pose.

I want to give an example of why the NHS is so wonderful, and why Americans need to speak to these people who live in such a system - find a Canadian, if you can not find a Brit! They are next.

Pictured are Rebecca and Bailey, my twin daughters. This was taken in June 2003, a few days after birth. Let me explain to you the first few weeks.

On June 2 a problem was discovered during pregnancy, nothing too serious, but Bailey (only known medically as T2 at the time) did not grow up in two weeks and his older sister, T1, was all leaching its nutrients. There was also a knot in the umbilical cord T2 and if an emergency caesarean at 35 weeks is essential.

(Earlier in the pregnancy, it was noticed that girls were monoamniotic and monochorionic and if we had scans every two weeks. There is no charge for medical appointments, scans or follow-up. Nothing .)

So, late at night on June 2 of their mother was prepared for surgery. In attendance was a surgeon and his assistant, an anesthesiologist and his assistant, a pediatrician for every double, and two pediatric nurses for each twin - including their mother, me and the girls, there were 14 people in this room just after midnight.

Now it is true that we had not met the surgeon before. Lindsey did not choose himself or his team. And although this was not an emergency, it would still not been able to choose the surgeon (although that is starting to do more in the NHS). But it was an emergency, the guy seemed to know what he did and we were underway.

How many Americans in this situation - one of the most terrible hours of my life emotions - would have to calculate their copay, having to call an insurance company or worse yet, wondering what their house was worth because he was going to withdraw help pay the bill.

All we had to worry until 1:19 was our girls. There was no need to worry about costs, no bills to pay.

When they were born there were minor complications, T1 had to be resuscitated. But both were treated at the scene, wrapped in incubators and rushed down to SCBU (Special Care Baby Unit). After an hour I could see down to find the two tiny things, you can see from these photos. Again, I do not have to worry about what I could afford treatment or not, all I had to do was stand there and watch some of the best care in the world of health that is happening around me for the love of my children.

They spent a little over four weeks in total in the SCBU unit, and, fortunately, had no major problems. Other children have been much worse, and unfortunately some do not, but all were.