While there are always going to be some idiots, I don't think everyone thought that the healthcare would be the same as top-dollar private insurance. But there is a large group of people who have no coverage because they fall in the gap between being able to afford it and qualifying for assistance.

Jobs offering really good insurance at not much cost to the employee tend to be a pretty narrowly specific type of thing (well, actually I just realized I have no idea what is a common employee contribution for insanely high-paying jobs with good benefits, it could go either way), not high salary, generally requiring a bit more education than other jobs that don't even have the potential for a future high salary, and limited mostly to high-stress fields like social work.

Health insurance appears to nationwide be similar to housing and childcare here in NYC - if you don't have a personal fortune, or assistance, you're going to struggle. You can't just say, oh, it doesn't need to be fancy or trendy, just safe and adequete, that's still going to cost something that will be difficult.

well I see nothing wrong with ripping off the rest of the world by giving them what amounts to monopoly money at this point...however, the United States overlooked one small detail in its quest to set up the worlds first government instituted ponzi scheme...it didn't really account for the possibility of the United States importing more than it exports AND having some of its more vital industries dominated by or reliant upon foreign technology. so unless something changes quite dramatically, in the future things will indeed cost more lol.

Holy mother of Christ:

Seriously guys. This is what so many of you were so resistant to.

Oopoochie, any chance you'll move to America some day? You would make a good one.

I thought about moving to Canada once, but it was never really going to happen. I quite like the idea of Norway or somewhere like that.