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For very few health care is something paid for by the recipient of the care. Whether in the US or in the EU, where we have a National Health schemes. Most pay for health care some way or another. The difference in the systems between the US and EU is our insurance is collected through taxes on our wages in the EU, in the US it's run be big insurance companies with them taking out a massive profit.
My Mother paid UK taxes most of her life and now she's retired and diabetic her health care is not subject to Medicaid it's her right to get health care for free is something she's paid for. The same with me and my cancer or Eva with her near fatal car crash. We were not asked for insurance cover or presented with a bill. We've already paid. This also goes for any drugs we need.
I would would wager we in the EU pay less per person for health care than the US. And most of us are glad of that. We prefer the inefficiencies of a Government run health care system against one run tor profit and shareholders. Which ever way it's run you will have to pay for it, the idea that Government can take on the extra cost without taxes rising is absurd. But you stop paying a private insurance company instead.
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