And of course that's how it's worked with our (the US's) healthcare as well...

AFAIC, any country where people without jobs and/or money are expected to pay 2 to 8 times (8 is a guess; for all I know it could well be higher) more for their medical treatment/drugs than people with jobs/money simply cannot consider itself truly civilised. Seems to me the folks without jobs/money end up subsidising the medical care of those who do... now is that the wrong way round or what?

And the hoops that even people with jobs/insurance/money have to jump through -- and the runaround they get when they try to get the insurance to pay out... is also incredibly unfair; people who are poor/unemployed/less educated/seriously ill often are so busy just trying to survive, they have even less time/patience/knowledge/energy/wherewithal to persist in the effort to be paid back by the insurance companies than well-off, better-educated folks.

I'm praying ObamaCare will help alleviate some of these injustices -- IF it manages to survive all the negative (and often misleading and/or completely untrue) PR it gets...

"The rich get richer and the poor get poorer."
One thing the bible got right (sadly)!

That's 'cos the rich get to make the rules...