Is anyone preventing you from exercising? Does anyone keep you from reading a health text? Is anyone stopping you from shopping the produce dept?
The US healthcare system is a total scam.
The US federal govt spends MORE per capita on healthcare than the UK govt does, and for that they get the NHS which treats everyone.
For this money, most people get NOTHING.
So you have to buy private insurance.
Before you've even started, you have to pay 15% of all you spend for an insurance company, and this company will actively be looking at ways of not paying for your healthcare. In the UK, they don't need insurance companies.
So, you've now paid 57.5% of healthcare, and you've got nothing. (50% to the govt, 7.5% to insurance companies).
Then you have inflated prices because... they can.
Then you have doctors giving you the more expensive medicine because... they make money from that.
Then you have all sorts of things that mean your health insurance costs a fortune, way more than it should, just so many people can take.
I worked with a guy and his father made money from healthcare. He sold things to hospitals and doctors. And he made loads of money from it. So, there's more money going down the drain.
Before you've even got healthcare, most of what you've spent for your healthcare is going into somebody's pocket for no reason other than because the system leeches off of the people.