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the most rabidly right wing Brit would probably be regarded as a commie pinko begging to be relieved of their life by their American counterpart.

You noticed that too?

What most countries consider basic public healthcare is considered to be an affront to liberty, democracy, capitalism, and the American Way by many Americans.

Wasting zillions of dollars on the military, prisons, law enforcement, surveillance of citizens, and defense of corporations is OK though.

This always baffled me. Average citizen in US can not afford a normal cancer treatment provided by basic healthcare service available everywhere else in the western world, right? So if he gets cancer, which one stands pretty good chance to get, he has an option either not to get normal cancer treatment or bankrupt his own family forever. How's then small state beneficial to average citizen in this case? Why do people vote for small state if they are not rich and expose themselves to this enormous risk?

Do we really want to know the answer?

Maybe it boils down to a small state for the people who actually need its help, and a bleedin' gargantuan one for all the corporate pockets whispering in backroom ears.

US health spending per capita is the highest in the world. Nearly three times more per capita than the UK where any old vegetable can get decades of treatment for nothing. It might be a bit crap sometimes but at least it's available.

That difference has to be lining pockets somewhere. At least in some first world countries there's an effort to keep corporate interests at bay. The US is a potential vision of the future if they let it go too far.

Definitely. State run models do collective bargaining with drug companies. Private hospitals and private health insurance companies in the US don't have the clout to get the same prices. Plus, a lot of the private insurances have premium features which you won't get in most countries. A large room for yourself and fresh flowers every day won't really help you survive cancer surgery. But most of the difference is from the difference in drug prices. The US market effectively pays all the development costs of the pharmaceutical companies because they don't do collective bargaining.