[gregsq]

I'm a dual national UK/Australian resident in the US. If I were to find that I needed serious medical attention, I'd be on the plane back to either country as soon as I could. Out of interest I'll look up how much it costs to rent a jet and pilot.

[chrisper]

You can get insurance in your home country that includes airlifting back to that place.

[atmosx]

Of course you would! Anyone in their right minds would. I still don't understand why the USA has such a lousy healthcare system[1] and why people don't demand something more appropriate.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386032/

[Cthulhu_]

Probably the same reason why people stay in North-Korea - they don't know any better, or they keep believing in the nationalist propaganda that the US is the best country EVAr.

Thanks for linking that, Roger Moore may be controversial, but he does a good job of pointing out why the reality of the US just doesn't match up to its propaganda.

[jganetsk]

That's Michael Moore, not Roger Moore. The latter is an Englishman who played James Bond. And it has nothing to do with what Americans believe, but everything to do with the fact that money controls politics in America. And moneyed interests want American healthcare to stay exactly as it is.

Thanks for comparing us to North Korea. I appreciate it. Also, the reason people stay in North Korea is because they will kill you if you try to escape, and will kill your remaining family if you succeed.

I will also let you know when I meet the first American who thinks our healthcare system works.

I really do hope you continue on your path of caricaturing others in order to make yourself feel better.

[fit2rule]

You have to admit though, there does seem to be a fair amount of Stockholm Syndrome going on with Americans and their health-care system - it really is that bad: Americans are being held hostage by their medical lobbyists who use the terror of a visit to the public hospital for a sprained ankle to keep their minions in line.