Really? Maybe a long duration but highly curable health problems. What happens to the blind or someone who loses both arms? Do they really have more wealth than their counterparts in the US?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2016/10/...
I can almost guarantee that nearly all of the 30% of Americans WITH savings have health insurance with an out of pocket max.
I can almost guarantee that many of the people without insurance are in the no savings group.
So perhaps I am missing something, but I am not seeing a huge group of Americans that have their wealth in danger by the current healthcare system.
And furthermore, that the system doesn't affect them because they're not part of it?
What do the 70% of Americans with no savings do when they get sick?
I think this is the real benefit of socialised health care. Your wealth will survive a health problem. You will not lose your house because you got cancer.
Health insurance works when it works (I have some), but when they decide they're not going to pay your bills, for whatever reason, and you have to pay the bills to keep the doctors working until you can take the insurer to court, then it's a nightmare. Socialised health care avoids this.