I get it. Joe wanted an elective surgery and expected insurance to pay for something it didn't cover. Rather than be a man about it, he whined and bitched like Liberals do.
You don't get it. It's not the government's responsibility to make sure people have health coverage. It really is that simple but you don't want to understand it.
It wasn't "elective". I'd have probably died if I didn't get it. This is what qualified medical professionals told me.
But you do bring up an interesting question. Should health care be a public service provided to all citizens like police and fire protection, or should it be a consumer commodity that you only get if you can afford it?
Obviously every other industrialized nation has asked this question and decided it SHOULD be a public service. Only the US still treats it as a consumer commodity and has the worst health care in the industrialized world.
Lowest Life Expectency in advanced nations.
Highest infant mortality rate
62% of bankruptcies linked to medical crisis, and 75% of those had health insurance.