Great article continues at source:
"It is the one thing, in our digital, atomised, privatised, multi-ethnic age, that unites us; our irreducible essence, the very best of us. Healthcare free at the point of delivery is the principle upon which every politician across our spectrum — marginal self-publicists such as Daniel Hannan aside — now agrees. The NHS ministered to David Cameron’s brain-damaged son as tenderly as to Gordon Brown’s fatally ill infant girl. It shows that decency, fairness and compassion, the national traits we fear died with nobler generations, live on. That America does not have universal health-care, that 47 million of your citizens live in fear of getting ill, appals and, frankly, baffles us."

The proposed American system has similarities but is still a very different monster from health care in other countries. Comparisons are made when most people haven't even read the actual bill.
If they did they would know that, it is only the same in principle. It is the details that make the difference.

The writer loses all credibility when he/she refers to Universal Healthcare as "free healthcare."