> If you get sick and can't work, is the health care system supposed to pay your mortgage too? In lots of countries, if you get too sick to work, the governmen

> If you get sick and can't work, is the health care system supposed to pay your mortgage too? In lots of countries, if you get too sick to work, the government will assist you in paying for housing. In lots of countries, they'll do it if you're just unemployed, too. There's no righteousness to the fend-for-yourself ideals of the USA. It doesn't have to work that way. You can choose, as a society, to sacrifice extreme wealth for greater equality. It doesn't make those countries better, but nor does it make them worse. The widespread and persistent belief in the USA that whatever the USA does is the best way, and all other countries are dumber and weaker, is one of the most distasteful things about living here as an immigrant. It doesn't have to work this way. The American way is not automatically the best one.