As someone with an intimate knowledge of the US healthcare system, Terrance is luckier than the 40 million Americans whom can't afford it. Please check your facts too, no nation on this planet spends more on healthcare as a propotion of GDP than the U.S, we spend so much and get precious little in return:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0218/p16s01-coop.html
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Healthcare spending in 2001 accounted for 14.1 percent of the US gross domestic product (GDP), the nation's total output of goods and services. By 2012, that share will rise to 17.7 percent, projects the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a federal agency in Baltimore.
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One curious fact is that the hugely expensive US healthcare system - more than $4,500 a person, versus $2,000 per capita for the average OECD spending level - hasn't made Americans, on average, longer-lived. Life spans in most industrial nations are a year or two longer. And most of them have relatively more smokers.