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many of us lose our homes trying to pay off medical debt, or die in waiting rooms of emergency clinics
it's not like we're being smug and superior about our healthcare system lol it's really, really painful for most of us
comparison with other countries IS eye-opening but invariably leads to hostility toward Americans ("'murica", school shooting references, etc) and it's made a lot of us angry. we can't help but be suspicious of comments like your last sentence because it has the potential to be abusive in nature, not helpful, and we've learned from past experience that there's a non-zero chance it was meant to be.
but anyway yeah, I hope someday I find the means to demand a better base level of care
It was definitely not meant to be mean-spirited. A rising tide should lift us all. Selfishly, I imagine the good a few hundred million people could do for the rest of the world if suddenly freed from these sort of unnecessary financial and social hardships.