[killersneakers]

i have lived in a country where we have had national healthcare funded off taxes for my entire life. I have never questioned this, I suppose, although substandard care and the working people having to pay for the lazy ****s and people who make choices to be unhealthy are somewhat irksome, however there are a couple of things I don't understand:

1. If there is no national health care, then everybody needs to be insured to recieved health care unless they can pay for it with their own money; what happens if someone is born with an illness which will cost a lot of money to treat? Who insures them, and at what cost? It seems to me that it's unfair that person should be burdened with the costs simply because they were born with, or developed health issues before they got insurance.

2. If someone is not insured and is injured, do they simply not recieve treatment? As ideal as it is to have everyone insured, it seems kind of inhumane to justify not giving treatment.

3. What if someone can't afford health insurance? Is this unrealistic? I really don't know how much someone should/would pay for health insurance.

I'm sorry if these questions appear dumb, but like I have said, I have always lived in a country where healthcare is pretty much paid for by the state... I have never experienced anything else.