Yet, in the pre-Medicare days, this is exactly what families were faced with when someone got seriously sick: they had to pool their money to pay for treatment

Yet, in the pre-Medicare days, this is exactly what families were faced with when someone got seriously sick: they had to pool their money to pay for treatment. Today, people resent even paying the co-pay, and the notion of coming up with a few thousand dollars that might be a small fraction of the bills would be considered outrageous and unfair.