>I think Bernie's point is that there are tens of millions of people in the US who can't afford any medical treatment or insurance but at least in the states where I've lived, poor kids, including my brother and myself way back, could be vaccinated at no cost.

I'm still under the same Republican insurance policy that I had in the US. It's very terse, says "Stay healthy". And it still works.

My medication consumption is, on the average, two 200mg (not the standard 400mg) ibuprofens (called brufen here) a year. Last year, though, I used 5, all in the first week of the year... so it's now about sixty weeks since I last had a pill in my mouth. Don't even remember when I last took an aspirin, perhaps last decade.