The health care industry is becoming an end all, be all in this country.  Our whole economy is being distorted by the popular demands for the most and best care possible and conceivable.  Take the drug industry, on the one hand they want huge windfall profits to reward investor risks, but on the other hand they would like to be subsidized to manufacture little used drugs.  On the human resource side of health care, there are over a million doctors who aspire to be (or have become) multi-millionaires due to the fact they gave up a big chunk of their youth for their medical studies.  When will the greed and unrealistic expectations subside on both sides, provider and recipient.  

But when all is said and done, there are the heart string tugging stories of individuals trying to navigate the swamp of our health care system.  So as a society we have chosen to spend a higher percentage of our GNP by far than any developed country in the world.  And, we're still not satisfied with the result