Someone (skipants) did respond that way: > Your comment and the one higher in this chain makes it sound like a hard problem when it's only a problem for the Un

Someone (skipants) did respond that way: > Your comment and the one higher in this chain makes it sound like a hard problem when it's only a problem for the United States and no other (1st world) country. I don't really understand how that's possible. Yes, healthcare is byzantine in the US, but it's not less complex in any other first world country, yet America is a dramatic outlier -- in a bad way -- in terms of price to performance. Countries that do markedly better on such measures are also countries which tend to have some kind of price controls built into their healthcare system. While I understand the temptation to bristle at the more needling comment, it's hard not to see debating over whether someone whose username is "Asshat" is being unfairly sarcastic as a bit beside the point. (Also, the good admiral did not, as far as I can tell, attack you, he attacked what he perceived to be your argument.)