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[eric l]

From what has been posted here so far, I get the impression it is mainly about the American situation relating to Health Insurance. From a European point of view, the American Health Insurance is almost non-existing !!!
And if, to Americans, European Health Insurance is Socialism, then I'm a socialist and proud of it !
The whole idea about Health Insurance is mutual help; by comparison insurance by privately owned companies is not much more than instituionalized gambling : if there is any risk that your job or your environment or your age is more liable to making the company pay, you'll have to pay more.
It's a bit like with democracy : the idea of one man (or woman) - one vote does not garantee that our leaders always make the best decissions; but all other systems that have been tested in the course of history turned out even worse.