It should get downvoted; it's heartless. Given the hundreds of millions of people in the US, the fact that thousands, or even millions, of people successfully

It should get downvoted; it's heartless. Given the hundreds of millions of people in the US, the fact that thousands, or even millions, of people successfully seek medical care doesn't demonstrate much. One or two people whose lives are ruined by rent-seeking in a life-or-death matter is too many (I think one wouldn't ignore several cases of food poisoning at a restaurant and respond that hundreds had eaten there without incident); I suspect that the actual number of people affected by this sort of catastrophe is at least in the thousands. Unless you're one of the people affected (and probably not even then), you have no right to dismiss the suffering of those who have been.