Everytime I see a dicussion of socialized healthcare in the US I remember Firefighters and chuckle. Historically speaking, a couple of years ago, Firefighting in parts of the US was a private enterprise, that meant that, if you did not pay for your firefighting insurance, and your house caught a fire, firefigthers who were there to put down your neighbours fire would let your house burn to the ground.

In one hundred years, society will be laughing at the current system that let's people die, or ruin their life financially because they got Crohns disease and aren't able to pay them or to be attended because they don't have the means to.

It is just that some societies are not as mature as others.