Fuk it. Part of our economy is having poor people live in, well, poverty so they struggle to pay medical bills, credit card bills, Wal-Mart bills, etc. Meanwhile, Joe Blow with a $125k income pays $350k for an open heart surgery and can't afford it.

All of this happens while peasants in Thailand pay for great health care at a fraction that we do. My brother's wife just got a C-section paid in cash from doctors who are just as good if not better than American doctors. My brother has no health insurance.

Why?

Profits.

Insurance companies and pharm companies make BIG dollars and I can't emphasize BIG.

God forbid socialized health care. As if things weren't already socially subsidized in this country: medicare, medicaid, commercial fishing, and of course the cherry on the cake -- industrial farming.