It is considered rational, responsible, and normal in most democratic First World societies nowadays that everyone shares in the cost of national health care coverage (through their taxes) and everyone benefits by getting automatic health coverage when they need it.
Thus is it "mandated" for all citizens...except in the USA.
It makes a hell of a lot more sense than paying your taxes to fight pre-emptive wars that cost so much money that they could both provide health care and eliminate poverty in most of the world!
You know who opposed that sort of health coverage being brought in in Canada when it was? The health insurance companies and the CMA (Canadian Medical Association) opposed it. The medical professional establishment opposed it. Guess why? They figured they might not make as much money with a national health care system in place. (God knows, they still make plenty of money!)
So much for their supposed interest in protecting the health of the public.
Unfortunately, it is those very people (or their counterparts) in the USA who are trying as hard as they can to keep the USA permanently in the dark ages when it comes to providing health coverage to its citizens on an equal and an affordable basis.
It's greed. Nothing more than that. Just plain old monetary greed, devoid of social responsibility. Will any American politician be found with the guts to really challenge that and the power to change it? If so, will the $ySStem roll over and submit to such a change or will they checkmate that politician?