Good article, though these are not the extremes. In the real extremes, there is no healthcare whatsoever, versus precisely the healthcare you need, when you need it. This is a resource allocation issue, and as a nation you need to wise up (I'm not American, and yes, my nation is dumb as a brick too in many areas - but not in this). You want to be the world policeman/resource grabber and spend gazzillions on weaponry you can never actually use (or we're all dead anyway and healthcare is mute), or you spend what you have actually looking after each other. Actually looking after children is surely a no-brainer - if you won't do that as a society you cannot even pretend to be civilised, and its no wonder you end up with so-called adults who won't look after each other and think they need to pillage the rest of the world to survive. Yours respectfully, Db