ie they weren't obese, most chose not to smoke, and they didn't prioritize cable TV with HBO and Nike shoes etc over a budget for their own insurance policy. Health care is and always will be private because nobody is entitled to the knowledge and labor of another human being (the physician). You cannot privatize a person, and persons are who / what deliver health care. And the persons that form corporations to build and buy hospitals and create drugs and build gamma knifes also do so at their option. They ado not belong to you or me or the #badword#ing government. I cannot for the life of me understand how people fail to grasp these concepts.