Are you the descendant or relative of very recent immigrants? Like since the 1960s?
My relatives who came from across the sea came form England in the 1670's, Germany in the very early 1800's and Sweden in the 1870's. They came to work and run businesses. There was no socialism at that time in any of those countries that caused them to leave. There was monarchy and/or feudalism, and all public policy run by the golden rule..."He who has the gold, RULES".
The only people who got medical care at those various times they were leaving, such as it was with the advance of medical research etc., were those who could pay cash for it...the very well to do. The very same sort of system that we are headed for today without very serious reform, which has been attempted.....though modestly and crudely. And up against very powerful interests who, although the shingle above their doors says that they are a part of the medicine business have no interest in the universal distribution of it.
So, like, did your parents come from France or Norway in the 1960s or 70s or something like that? They had forms of socialized medicine by then, as access to health care had been seen to be of primary importance in the rebuilding of those nation's economies and business climates coming out of World War 2. And now we are fixing to, by the full stated intentions of right winged boniness and political interests to restore the U.S. to the midwifery that those places that my "relatives" came from way back in the day had.
