Our medical system is absolutely fine for the lucky ones. Americans tend to blinders on until something happens to them. Sad, but true. No one wants anything forced on them, but everyone complains when they become one of the folks needing something they don't have.

Somehow, people with good jobs and a good income tend to think that people who have declared bankruptcy due to medical bills, failed to plan for the future. The reality is that sometimes no amount of planning here in the U.S. can adequately prepare you for everything. Most people assume they are fine and covered because they've never had to change medical insurance with an expensive condition already diagnosed. When that happens, everything changes. The reality is painful.



>>My mother is on a fixed income and she was born in 1938 so she has had plenty of recent experience with this. All I can say is that I am more and more inclined to vote for socialized health care here in the U.S. After so many years of hard work (I know of few in my generation who have worked as hard as she has her whole life) it is difficult at best to pay for medicine and medical care. I (along with my 3 sisters) pay her medical costs and it is running just me a couple of hundred a month. With the amount of money I pay in taxes I find it very difficult to believe that we cannot have medical care for everyone.
>>It costs me very little for my own medical care because I have good insurance through where I am employed. That is not available to everyone in this country though unless they are fortunate to work for a company which provides it. Even so, if my employer switches coverages or companies (as most do to negotiate the best deal annually) or I lose my job or switch jobs, then I have to be concerned with any pre-existing conditions.
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>Preexisting conditions. I have seen companies change policies and individuals promised by the insurance company that they would be covered. Then the reality. When they submit a claim to the new insurance company it simply comes back: “Denied. Preexisting condition”!
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>If it does not happen to you, then should you be concerned? Why be a “real American”. You are entitled to nothing. Take away all benifits. I do not want to pay for the "other guy".