Martin Hotze wrote:

Better check your meds dude;

well, I can afford medicamentation (can you?)

Easily. A sufficiently peaceful upbringing and a good education (all
Federally subsidized, by the way, and not lightly), positioned me to
take work that offers health insurance.

Now, I buy my own health "insurance," at a premium rate fully
one-forth of that which my boss would be charged. So he pays me the
premium money as salary, grossed-up for taxes, and I keep the
difference to take care of deductibles and copays.

It helps marvelously that I don't abuse any substance except processed
carbohydrates.

Now, what about the unfortunate in the country?

Well, for "uninsured children", there is *always* medicaid and WIC.
For the "uninsured seniors", there is Medicare. All three are Federal
programs. Those in the middle can quit smoking and buy the individual
stuff, in most States. The rest have decent ARISTA coverage through
their companies.

Just because your system has one solution, doesn't mean the U.S.
solution is so wanting that it needs to be razed and replaced. Fewer
people suffer (materially) in the U.S. than anywhere else in the
world.

Rob