General Discussion

Seriously, it is! Part of the American success story, to be successfully greedy.

But a question - which past government administration thought it should privatise health care, and went and did it, not expecting profiteering?

Most other civilised countries have serious health care, one that looks after people irrespective of cost and ability to pay.
Funded by the taxpayer.

We have a two tier system in Australia.

1. The public system.
Life threatening medical situations are dealt with effectively, costs are never mentioned to the patient.
Elective surgery - well, long wating lists there!

2. The private system.
You pay your dues - mostly non profit funds - and pay a residual for everything if you end up in hospital.
Advantage - elective surgery has no waiting lists, food is better, nurses are prettier and more polite.

We have relied on the public system, only exception is the wife's cataracts, private system, AU $5K to get them done.

Anyway, to the main point of this post:
Wife is a UK born war chilld, father a visiting GI by the name of Tex Bowman.
Now Tex liked to spread his seed wherever he could, so my wife has plenty of half brothers and sisters in the USA.

She is concerned, a lot have fallen off the twig lately, some younger than she is.

My only response when she expresses that concern is . . . yeah, well, they do have a third word level health system over there!