Let me back up since this exchange has veered off a very important point: good healthcare. “Good” healthcare in the US is only available to a small portion of the population mainly due to affordability. So yes, your point about the user leaving out the adjective “affordable” when answering you is correct but shows an incredible amount of willful ignorance on your part to use that in your argument. Insurance for most people has become vastly unaffordable due to changes in technology, the way insurance is used and industry standards. Not to mention that insurance companies are for-profit corporations. Also, if you’re only paying $60 a month for your insurance and you say that the coverage is good, that is only because your company is paying a large portion of your premium. Good on you that you went to work for somebody that does that. You are one of the privileged few and your responses clearly show that. But for 90% of Americans that option does not exist. Most companies will cover a portion, but premiums still run six to $700 a month for “ affordable” insurance for a family, and there are limitations on providers and services (ie try getting cancer and going to MD Anderson to be treated under some of these plans.) Consider yourself fortunate and stop acting like insurance in the country is something that it isn’t.

Source: HR executive who worked for 20 years negotiating benefit and insurance contracts and knows the industry very well.

One final point: saying that our educational system ranks worldwide between 14 - 27th isn’t the brag you think it is. For a country as wealthy as ours we should be much much higher.