Without health insurance, you pay higher rates, like twice as much or more than what the insurance companies pay for procedures, tests. So, without an income, the house goes because he can't pay the $5,000 a month mortgage, the car goes because he can't make the payment.

Do you know so little about personal economics? Jeez. People in this country have been mortgaged up the ass for years. It doesn't take much to wash it all away. Unless you're smart enough to put half of everything into savings while you're flush. Damn few people ARE smart enough to do that. That includes doctors, lawyers and candlestick makers.

But even then, health care costs can eat up any savings. You can hit the million dollar mark for cancer treatment in no time at all. If something is undiagnosed, idiot doctors will order test after test after test after test after test.... They often take the easy way instead of researching something.