Just as worrying are the non-lethal ailments where people are forced to choose between X and "not-dying" and a substantial number of people will underestimate t

Just as worrying are the non-lethal ailments where people are forced to choose between X and "not-dying" and a substantial number of people will underestimate the effect that struggling on sick has on them and choose that over going hungry. The healthcare system in the U.S. means that I consider the United States of America a second-world / not-fully-developed country: it doesn't belong in the first-world alongside those countries which look after their sick.