Well, I'm glad to hear that. I think, though, that it is those in lower income brackets in any society who most need to be protected by a universal health care system. That's the idea behind such a system. The idea is that no one will be unable to afford needed medical treatment nor will they have to purchase expensive insurance from a privately owned insurance company. What do you think of insurance companies in a general sense? Do you think they are good samaritans? I think they're in it strictly for the money. I think they'll do anything they can to weasel out of paying an insurance premium if they can find a way, because they're doing it to make money, not to help people.

Same deal goes for banks actually, but we need them because we cannot trust our fellow man enough to keep our money at home and feel remotely safe doing so...

It's a sad situation indeed. People should not have to fear these sorts of things in a properly functioning human community.

I would far rather pay a normal and predictable amount of yearly tax, along with everyone else, in a reasonably egalitarian manner, and have free medical coverage in return for a portion of it...than be suddenly confronted with a dire medical emergency that wipes me out financially. And so would anyone else with half a grain of sense.

Of course, if you think it's never going to happen to YOU....then that's a different matter, isn't it?

Maybe that's the attituded behind the whole neocon movement in the USA: "It's never gonna happen to me. I'm too special. Things like that just happen to poor people, foreigners, and losers, right? God protects his own, and that's why it won't happen to ME."