Are they bankrupted because they can’t pay the bill, or because they don’t think they should have to pay it because they believe wrongly that they are entitled to have someone else pay it? Or maybe it’s because, even though they could afford health insurance, and knew they should get it, they chose to get the 50 inch plasma instead.

As I said, if you can show me that fewer Americans per capita are bankrupted by medical bills or go without essential care than people in Canada, the UK, France, Sweden, Netherlands etc then please step forward with the evidence.

What you fail to realize is that the Canadian who had to get a mortgage would obviously have SAVED money by sticking with the Canadian system, but he would have paid more in HEALTH costs, as in more medical problems, possibly even death.

Thats why he chose to mortgage his house: it was the less expensive of the two options.

What is a higher expense? A mortgage payment or your life? Which is more valuable?

Well, you’re wrong, which if you read the various submissions to Congress (especially http://judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/White070717.pdf) you should know. The truth is, once again, that no one really knows what the actual figures are in the US - but the bottomline is far greater than in countries such as Canada and the UK. If you can honestly say that there are more people by percentage population in Canada or the UK who face difficulty with medical bills than in the US then I would question your sanity.

Actually, I know no such thing. And neither do you. I refer you (once again) to this.

This story is far more typical of the US - there are thousands of such stories to read on the net. But you know that, don’t you.