oh those dreadful socialists.

[More_liberal_than_mo]

1. I lived in Europe

for several years back in the early 1980's. While living in Italy my wife became pregnant. She went to a private doctor who had his own clinic. She had better care than she did for our first child in the US. Both were Cesarean deliveries. The final bill for the operation with a 6 day hospital stay was less $2,000. When our third child was born 3 years later in the USA the bill was over $11,000 with only a two day hospital stay.
When my daughter was on a high school trip to New Zealand a few years ago she was hurt in a fall on the ice. The total cost for the ER visit was less than $5.
Three weeks ago my now 24 year old daughter got food poisoning while eating at a restaurant on a trip to Texas. She spent 4 hours in the ER. I'm still getting bills for that. I have really good insurance and still have had to pay out over $700 out of pocket (deductible was already met). The ER bill was over $11,000 but the insurance company negotiated it down to slightly over $3000 of which I had to fork over 20 percent. Then there's bill from the doctor and the radiologist. I expect more bills to come before this is over.
Why anyone with a brain would want to keep our inferior over-priced US health care system is a mystery to me.