Take a gander at this squirrely:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/WORLDHEALTH2.png/500px-WORLDHEALTH2.png
Thats us, with the shittiest nations in the world. Universal health care is feasible and has been in action in the first world for over 50 years. We're the only rich industrialized nation without it. Even Mexico is going to do it; though is occurs to me that free health care might fix our border problem...
If a revolution comes, then we're truly without a chance of surviving and I'll return to mother Russia. blue jeans cost $200, but as least I can afford allergy medicine.
So, we join the international community of socialist states to fix the health care problem. How very American! Sure, such a program is feasible in countries who don't have huge foreign aid programs, foot the bill for the United Nations, search and destroy terrorists en masse, hand out food and medical care in impoverished countries like business cards, deal with massive infrastructural concerns, rarely have to deal with major natural disasters, and demographically aren't as fat. Just because their people are conditioned to accept it doesn't mean taxing people out the ass is something we should replicate.
There are ways of making health care available to all that don't involve simply throwing money at the problem and hoping things improve. Such things as giving people access to their medical information, making information available for customers to make comparisons in available care, making justice in malpractice more responsible, incentivizing clean living, and creating savings accounts to allow tax-free money for addressing critical health issues would transform the industry without creating a massive bureaucracy and tax hole that will never be filled.
And the fact remains that ours is the best health care system around, despite the fact that it's not free to all. And the only way a Mehican universal health care program will get off the ground is if either we or the invading hordes of aliens send them the money to make it happen. Strange, in that they come here in droves when we don't have socialized care available to them, huh? If you think they'll stay home for care, you have another think coming, because they'll still want more than just what that corrupt government decides to let them have.
Maybe you should go ahead and move to Russia. I know some missionary folks who go there every year and give free eye care to people there who can't get it because of the interminable waits (in return for a bit of proselytizing). Who knows, maybe they can arrange to take you with them. You can enjoy your $200 blue jeans and your allergy medicine to your heart's content...but you probably won't be too worried about your allergies when you're freezing your ass off in those nefarious Russian winters. Be sure to take a coat.
