Plenty of countries provide emergency and late night/weekend care without putting people into massive debt for it. Of course there are places where people are w

Plenty of countries provide emergency and late night/weekend care without putting people into massive debt for it. Of course there are places where people are worse off than us, but there are places better off than us too. I'm not going to eat the exact same Tostino's pizza every night and say "That's good enough" just because in some countries people are dying of thirst and starvation. You don't stop improving things just because it's worse off elsewhere. It is so great that we have an ER available to most people here at all times. But we can still do better with it. If you get in a car crash and they have to rush you to the nearest ER you don't get to shop around or choose, which is why it's a monopoly. They can charge you whatever price they want very specifically because your life literally depends on it. There's no market freedom in that. That's why healthcare shouldn't be left to just the free market. That's why so many countries have social healthcare. Sure the engineer you mentioned could handle it, an engineer can handle most financial burdens but not everyone is an engineer. One ER trip can make fixing your credit nearly impossible, and then you can't get a car(required in many areas of the USA due to how cities are planned) or a house, certain jobs, emergency loans, etc. It's not "a little on the expensive side", it's "How much can we milk you for with your life on the line?"