>Obviously, I see no reason to affect your thinking, but still, 'quality of life' measure is subjective to so many peculiar whiffs, usually of >political sense, that bringing it up dilutes any discussion, imho. In regard to more specific healthcare issue, as long as USA is one of >the wealthiest countries, health care service will be Ok here. I don't know how our help to other countries relate to it, so I would use >more specific example: there are still many people around the world trying to get medical care in US-based facilities.
>Fixing the problems is elusive term. One man fix is another man breakdown. Again, I would recommend to look at health care situation >in context of more general wealth creating issue. More specifically, a country cannot commit itself to produce less wealth and gettting >better health care at the same time

By quality of life I mean travel, health care,leisure,culture,family time. We can agree that americans work the longest hours in the world.

> I don't know how our help to other countries relate to it,>
Public money that should be used to help other americans in need.
I think we are at the point that national healthcare should be mandatory. The gov could give tax credits (or some form of bailout money since this is the trend now) to buy insurance and work with the insurance industry to remove preexisting issues clause.