>Of course it's a free country. That doesn't mean there are no rules or that we can just make our own. If we want to drive a car, we need to pass a test and get a driver's license. If we want to practice medicine or law, we have to pass certification tests. There are rules (laws) about keeping wild animals, making excessive noise, littering. There are a great many things which are considered to be in the common good. This is how civilized societies work. The obligation to do some things together does not eliminate individual rights.
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>How does the re-distribution of wealth help civilization? It only helps to create a civilization of needy people.

This is not about redistribution of wealth, but enforcing the health care industry to reform, work more efficient, following standards, get cheaper to everyone. Currently your health care is a patchwork of providers with all kinds of problems. In a civilised country universal healthcare should be a right just as emergency healthcare already is. It is MYTH that in the end it is more expensive than it is now already. Americans spend the most (by far) for substandard healthcare. The problem is that americans are not looking outside of the box, even if they claim to have been living in another country where they do have public healthcare. You're kept hostage by right wing forces that have interests in keeping the status quo (e.g. pharmacy companies).A huge part of your healthcare cost does not have anything to do with the true costs of the healthcare, but rather greedy persons that make huge profits on the misery of another.

Forget it. Self regulation does not work in this type of sports, just as self regulation in the financial market won't work either.