[geodel]

Well that's kind of truism. Good food, good education, good car, good house and so on, none of them have to be expensive, but more often than not they are.

[ceejayoz]

Where healthcare's concerned, that's simply not the case.

The US spends 2-3 times what the rest of the OECD countries spend on a per-capita basis. https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm

For all that spending, we have lower life expectancy and worse stats in a variety of outcomes. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/press-releases/... http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-healthcare-comparison-20...

Not only does healthcare not have to be expensive, it isn't (comparatively speaking) in the rest of the developed world.