Bobert:

To give you an example of what I mean, there was a place with the name Boston Neonate Emergency Clinic. The detail may be wrong, but the gist is correct. It was estableshed with a federal grant to see how well the idea would work.They took the sickest neonates in the area and made them live. No questions, no budget. Their median case cost about 1/4 million and one went as high as 4 million. Everyone loved the work they were doing but the clinic closed early (that incarnation, there may be a later, lesser one) because no one could afford it.

Extend this level of care (assuming the facilities were availqble, they aren't) to ALL medical conditions and the country would be bankrupt in a year. Or less.