[sdwa]

Is there any evidence that the reason healthcare is so unaffordable and people go bankrupt is because people are unhealthy? Your "just be healthier" solution is no solution at all.

Regardless, people fall ill through no fault of their own all the time. I am very healthy and very active, but right now for all I know I could have a brain tumour. Your response is so stereotypically American: just ignore the problem and encourage people to take responsibility over something they by definition have little control over in the first place.

[wheno]

That is something has always confused me a bit. Many people tend to object to universal system on the basis that it leaves it up to the government. But if you don't have universal systems the government, and the companies operating in the market, have little incentive to take care of its citizens. Because the cost of not doing so is left to you. Even if you want to argue that a health care system is a factor of how healthy people are, it is the universal systems that have the incentive that people are healthy. It is those systems that more often regulate things like transportation or drugs as public health issues.