i'm not! where i live, we have public health insurance and private health insurance (if you don't know, wikipedia has a good summary https://en.wikipedia.org/wi

i'm not! where i live, we have public health insurance and private health insurance (if you don't know, wikipedia has a good summary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistema_%C3%9Anico_de_Sa%C3%BAde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistema_%C3%9Anico_de_Sa%C3%BA...). i can go to a public hospital and get most procedures done -- the problem is, a lot of them, specially electives, take a LONG time (sometimes, over a year). but i can do them, and i'm not going to get bankrupt if i get bitten by a snake. but i also have private health insurance -- i pay it myself for me and my wife. why? because sometimes, i don't wanna get into insane lines and wait for hours on ER. also, i can get elective procedures done a lot faster -- which means i'm not crowding our public health care system. what i mean is: everything i can do with my public heath insurance system i can also do with my private health care system. it's just a matter of how fast it is.