Which I think and correct me if I am wrong, is currently the norm for most developed countries?

It is sort of strange it needs to be explicitly written out, at the same time for those of us not from US we just took it for granted and never think much about the system.

Preaching to the choir, but you might be surprised at how many of us in the US don't think these things through. Now, I do think a lot of this has to do with political marketing, so to speak. Let's not kid our selves, the health care industry makes fairly large corporate donations to both political parties and there is no real discussion to get rid of privatized, emergency medicine. Even our "radicals" like Bernie Sanders, who aren't even that far left, are loathe to bring that up in the US as the indoctrination has been dug so deep =[

This is very fair point and distinction.