Discuss Chris's answer to: Welfare Liberals

When you sign up for private health care they pool you with a bunch of other people to mitigate risk because their cost tables are built on large population averages. The more people, the less risk. They increase profits by negating the riskier people and just insuring the healthy. So much so that insurance is maybe the largest enterprise in the country. So they don't exactly struggle. The federal healthcare system is the same thing, but is just a larger pool of people...everyone. The benefit is that people born with ailments can still get insured. I come from upper mid class family, and we almost went broke when my step mom, even with a job at IBM and insurance, cost nearly a million dollars to battle 5 years of cervical cancer. My dad made it back by risky day trading of stocks, but most people would have been crippled for life with those kinds of bills. How well could you afford a million dollar medical expense liberalgirlieman?