Americans Unite - Behind Cold-Blooded Murderer

[Sheldon]

The problem is that in the UK health care is a service, in the USA health care is a business.
 How can it be fair when the simple act of getting sick or injured can leave you bankrupt?

Exactly, in the UK we often hear people talk about the burgeoning cost of the NHS, but I rarely hear anyone point out what the cost of not having it might be, one of the possible consequences you cited in your post, the catastrophic mortality rate among the poorest people would be another, the cost to business in lost work from avoidable sick leave another. People often assume because there are problems with something, that those problems won't be made far worse if that something were not there. 

Many US citizens seem to as angered by the notion of universal health care as they are at the prospect of sensible gun laws, based on the rather facile notions: freedom = good, control = bad, socialism = bad, free market capitalism = good. As if there is no overlap anywhere. If only Orwell were alive today...