[Kevin M]

Using that logic, health care in socialized medicine systems would cost infinity, since everybody is a 'welfare baby.' But the actual cost of health care in every other modern western democracy is less, per capita, than ours. the reason our health care costs are so high is because we don't have any protection against capitalism gone to extremes in this segment of the economy. Our government goes crazy trying to find ways to cut down Microsoft's profits, but they do literally nothing to stop health care insurance providers from raping us like crazy.