Here's the perspective of a diabetic woman moving from the UK to US and her experience with the difference between universal and private healthcare

If you wanna know the hard truth that's never mentioned (aka the elephant in the room) it's our unbridled addiction to capitalism. This is [i][b]not[/b][/i] saying capitalism is good or bad (it's actually neutral in that regard).

We have a society that not only has a certain percentage who is absolutely fine with an absurd level of gun violence, yet it's also perfectly acceptable (and even critical) to make a profit off everything, including life and death. In this case, health insurance.