Healthcare in the US is really a pretty simple philosophical question when boiled down: do you think it’s a right or a privilege, and does the govt have a role?

On one hand, we have the following countries who see it as a right, and proclaim a healthy citizenry as a national responsibility: Canada, Japan, S. Korea, most of Europe, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, etc.

On the other hand are countries like Mexico, Brazil, India, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia (countries that either can’t afford it or don’t see their citizens as worthy). So we have a simple choice: do we want to be like the rest of the developed world, or do we want to be like Brazil, India and Iran, among many others?