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well, I had "great" health insurance and when I got cancer in the USA it still cost me $10,000 in hard cash. Of course if you make enough to deduct it from your income (and then basically the government is subsidizing your health insurance) you don't care how much health insurance costs. But since the USA (in other words all American taxpayers and I'm one) pay twice as much per person as the "universal" health care governments, I'd have to say, universal healthcare is fairer for everyone and cheaper for governments because poor people don't have to turn to emergency wards for assistance. Also you can always pay extra to see a different or "better" specialist. I can see any doctor I want to, anywhere I want to, but I may have to pay a little extra - so that's my choice. As a doctor's daughter, and my father would agree, (he gave 3 mornings a week to care for patients free who couldn't pay) I am not comfortable to think that I can get better care than others who are just as deserving can't because of cost - and who ultimately pays???
In France healthcare is a right not a privilege and those of us with more money, pay more, it is our privilege for having more to pay and I am not a rich person monetarily but my heart and the opportunities I have been blessed to have, have made me feel very rich and I could not live with myself if others couldn't have the same opportunities as I have had. I am pleased to see that California, one of my home states, is considering it. Doctors would be relieved from paying out so much in malpractice insurance and no one would have to chose their health or food or whatever. Isn't one of our purposes in life to help those less fortunate than us? Giving to others is a gift. Not everyone who is poor is a lazy, thieving brat. Let's save ourselves and our government money and help those that are less fortunate - let's have some sort of universal care. We will always be in charge of our lives and our health - no one can take that away - that's just a paranoid public relations campaign devised by the "thieves" in the healthcare industry. I'm a capitalist with a capital C but that doesn't mean, I can't care about my fellow human beings. If I sound angry - I am. Health care is too important to everyone not just to those who can pay for it.
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