The U.S. health care system already takes our money and our lives. We have the highest rate of per-capita health care spending, and the highest rate of amenable mortality (deaths that could be prevented with appropriate medical care) in the industrialized world. We lose 70,000 lives a year that would be saved if our health care system was as good as what they have in France — where they spend about 65% of what we spend. [For the reference, Google "Measuring the Health of Nations".]
Vague talk about individual rights doesn’t help anyone. In France they have their money, their lives, and their freedom (to choose doctors, pay for treatments not covered by insurance, purchase supplemental insurance, etc.) too. Is it too much to hope for the same here?
