Try checking into a for-profit American hospital without the administrators going through your pockets, Peter. I can't even get a routine checkup at my local clinic without showing a current insurance card! No hospital takes on six-figure surgical procedures without making sure they'll get paid. The family didn't have the bucks, which is why the medical team was trying to get it out of Cigna.

The opposition to universal health care on this forum is very long on opinion and hearsay, and totally devoid of facts. The facts show that US health care is the most expensive on earth, and one of the less cost-effective. And that around the world (and here at home) government-run programs are more efficient and providing better health care outcomes.

If anyone here has evidence to the contrary, I'd sure like to see it posted!

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