I have to add to this: No public system works, at all. Every system has winners and losers, but public health systems let the government pick who wins, instead of letting you earn it through hard work. Not to mention that every public system piggybacks on an over-representation of R&D by US companies and non-US companies with profit incentives in our country. Though, that's a separate thread with tons of links to studies. The good news: Insurers can, with relative ease, separate those with genetic diabetes from fatasses. All in all, I would love to see our system permit discrimination based on the most easily curable, self-inflicted condition of all time, especially if it helps ensure that my family can afford treatment for problems that they have no control over. Fuck lazy stupid fat pigs hoovering up healthcare dollars along with their three pizza "light snack."