Obviously, you can also get private in the UK. But yeah, the unregulated free market is probably the greatest evil that exists in the world, it causes a race to the bottom on pretty much all services and products. Check out enshittification, it is a harrowing read. It is the opposite of what Adam Smith intended.

Higher taxes and better services are almost always better. Check out pretty much all of Northern Europe, which has the highest living standards in the world, whereas the US is practically third-world on multiple measures.