Reply to "America's Health Care System"

In my naive world, it seems to boil down to whether you want to put your trust and your cash for health care management in (A) the hands of a huge, bureaucratic and possibly even wasteful government, (B) in the hands of huge, bureaucratic and profit oriented insurance companies (focused on increasing profits (through higher rates and more clients) and decrease costs (by filling the contracts with limits and exclusions and possibly cutting off clients they view as high-risk)) (C) stay as healthy as you can as long as you can and save up for when you eventually do need health-care.

For me, Option C is like Russian roulette, you never know when you're going to need health-care - in the mid-80s I went to a trade show in Chicago, got food poisoning and was hit with a $5K bill for a few hours in emerg and a saline drip.

I don't know of a perfect system, but for all the problems with government run healthcare, at least it is there whether you are a construction worker, a fireman have a family history of heart disease or have another 'high-risk' issue or habit in your life.

Unless you live in a country or state that is obscenely wealthy to the point of giving its citizens anything they can imagine tax-free, you're either gonna be taxed or premiumed to death for health-care