@33mhz like, how good is someone who is somewhat poor and/or barely literate going to be at filling out a mass of incredibly complicated forms to acquire these benefits? They're not good at doing it. So those benefits discriminate automatically against those who need it most. Honestly probably someone you should read about who has been hideously affected by the cost of healthcare is Molly Holschzlag who has marrow failure post chemo for leukaemia. Among the many other accounts of the horrible inequities. The New England Journal of Medicine has a particularly poignant article about this. Doctors and patients alike will tell you about how unfair the US medical system is - and people here will tell you just how much better it is. These are well documented facts
// @keita