I'ma be a bit of a dick suck and have to 100% agree with Kruegen; the US healthcare system truly is as stupid and predatory as it seems from the outside. Those Harvard studies a few years back indicated that most bankruptcies in the US are from medical bills, and the majority of the bankrupt familieswereinsured. The entire concept is peddled as a preventative measure for that exact scenario, " need insurance to make sure if something goes wrong my family would be safe". And yet this system is still being lobbied for and protected.
Reminds me of tobacco companies or Bell Telephone managing to deny the most obvious , needed changes to their monopolies for decades on end, and now it's common knowledge that tar leads to emphysema and that phones can indeed have more than one ring tone, hah.
Funny you mention the costs of the military protecting us, Brutul. It's interesting how our nation spends billions a week for its citizens' safety and that bill is footed instantaneously without thought, but a person with an injurywhose safety could be directly assistedby a better system may be denied their claim. That pops up in my mind particularly when VA hospitals and charities ask for donations, "how and why the fuck does the Marine Corps need a bag of my old clothing"