> If you can stomach the $200 to $250/month plans, you will get better healthcare than anywhere in Europe.

Sources? My friends in the US who are from the EU and moved for some version of the American dream seem to disagree. And the point is; I don't want my 'job' to be in charge of my health insurance, ever. It is a perverse incentive (they can blackmail me with it and a lot more things; not legal, but I haven't seen many companies care about that little inconvenience). They should pay into it, but when I lose my job, my insurance should continue as if nothing happened. $250/mo is absolutely nothing though; I have friends on private plans double or more that and they still got fucked in the US because 'some reasons'/contract blah; when you are ill you don't want to bother with that shit; you just should get what you paid for for decades, not hire lawyers and have to go to court with a central line in you. That simply doesn't happen here; I will not get refused anything I need, even if I pay E0 (which I do not). Sure it might end some time, but it's gonna be a toss up depending on the coming years who has it worse.