"This "crisis" is largely being engineered."
No it's NOT, Tom. And stop being so blaze` about it.
It's not YOU who's dying of cancer and can't afford the treatments because yo have no health insurance. People without health insurance die TWICE as often, as those who do. Now why is that?
So, THIS is your fear:
>" How about not wanting Americans to wind up with a universally subsistence-level medical care system?"
HERE is a real statistic:
9,000,000 children in the US are without health insurance.
A CHILD WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE IS TWICE AS LIKELY TO DIE FROM MEDICAL COMPLICATIONS AND OTHER ISSUES AS ONE WHO IS INSURED.
Your lack of compassion is abominable.