Genghis makes an excellent point, as usual. But, the argument that the US is the only industrialized nation without universal health care is very weak. We're also the only industrialized nation with an unemployment rate in single digits. With a GDP shown without brackets. France reduced its workweek to 32 hours/week for the sole purpose of LOWERING THEIR UNEMPLOYMENT RATE!! More hours aren't being worked, the work is being spread over more workers, to the detriment of those working previously. Now, that's smoke and mirrors. (Go ahead, look it up) The vast majority of Americans enjoy excellent health care and enough options to ask for an umbrella when our screechy friends assure us that the sky is falling. I can assure you this: Americans will not be frightened or "guilted" into supporting this proposal because not enough people are being failed by the present system, in spite of the gargantuan efforts of our liberal media and left-leaning mouthpieces (as if there were a difference) purporting otherwise by pointing out how many are "uninsured. " And the reason we won't is because we all know that the guy on the stretcher might just be me. And if universal health care has just been nationalized the week before, I might be SOL. Being uninsured doesn't mean a health care facility can turn you away. 100% of poor people in the US have health care. They're all covered, look it up. Americans, en masse, don't usually agree with the attitude, "look, the Europeans do it this way, therefore, so should we. "