Paid 20% of my gross income out of pocket this year for medical costs and fairly bad care, despite being "insured". Let's see, then taxes were another 30%, so that left me a cool 50% to throw away on food and stuff.

We finally saw Sicko on DVD, but when we try to explain it to other people, they don't get it. You say: almost nowhere in the world is getting well linked to cash payments on your part. They say: you want socialized medicine and sky-high taxes, you raving lunatic.   

Nobody who hasn't been through this illness-impoverishing wringer, or who hasn't seen 'Sicko' can grasp that we need to nationalize it. All their life they've been taught we have top health care and that the 'free market' is the reason.

I don't think anything is going to change until the 'proletariat' gets to see Sicko on free broadcast television. THEN we may see the giant rise up.