Healthcare is essential. Either you pay for the healthcare through taxes, or society does in some other way. The some other way that the US has implemented is t

Healthcare is essential. Either you pay for the healthcare through taxes, or society does in some other way. The some other way that the US has implemented is to put layers bureaucracy of insurance and artificial "market choices" on top of the care, which removes all inefficiencies and inflates the cost dramatically. Of course the alternative is to leave people with health conditions out on the street and just ignore them, which does seem to be a common occurrence in the US