Quote Originally Posted by wmrs2 View Post

The health care we have is the best in the world. I planned for health care when I entered the job market at the level I was happy with. My insurance company just paid a $200,000 yearly health bill for me. If health care was totally a government monopoly, I am sure that I would be dead.
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A couple of questions

1) How do you measure how good our health care system is; infant mortality? life span? What metrics are you using to back up your declaration that this system is the best?

2) If you lost your job and ran out of COBRA coverage how would that $200k health bill be paid?