I like how so many people jumped right in with the intellectual pap without even seeing the movie – as was the OP’s request.
To those of you who think our current medical system is so great – consider yourselves lucky, but I don’t want my health care to depend on luck.
I can assume you have never been in a position to have to pay COBRA, or HIPPA, or haven’t been paying attention to how much more you are paying for less health care coverage.
Health care / dental care costs have the nature of snowballing as you grow older no matter how well you have taken care of yourself. Those years between 45 and medicare can easily bankrupt you. Wait til you have to apply for private coverage and the insurance company digs back into 10 years of medical records and comes up with some trumped up pre-existing condition so they can deny you when they really are turning you down because they don’t want to take the risk of your age.
Like someone else has brought up, consider yourself lucky if you have not had to spend hours trying to understand your annual new coverage, or spent hours on the phone trying to convince some drone that you didn’t chose to have a colonoscopy for the fun of it.
As for tort – I believe that for every case that makes it to court there are probably at leat 100 cases that should have seen litigation.
I have known many expatriots living in this country that have the best health coverage provided by their homeland companies while they are here. They see the best providers in this country, yet, if you ask them if they would trade their “socialized” medical system back home with our system, you will hear a resounding “NO!”
As to overweight Americans, I’ve been suspecting this for awhile and just saw this today:
