Reply #27: It is disgusting and shameful that in this country people have to gamble with their lives

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If I heard that there was a country somewhere in which people with no medical training had to weigh the risk of losing their lives, or their spouses' lives or their children's lives, against the risk of a devastating medical bill... I would think it was barbaric.

Well, it IS barbaric. It's just incredible that in a country like this, with all its resources and misplaced priorities, people have to roll the dice like that each and every day. It's... well, I hate to say it :sarcasm:, but it's kind of as if insurance lobbyists weren't on our side or something.