Meanwhile , I ' m trying to snap out of my food coma <| sep |> Not exactly what I came for . <| sep |> That really makes it tough . <| sep |> ign because of how many ads it ' s littered in . <| sep |> Yep . If you have a chronic health condition , you will basically be a slave to it all your life . All your vacation time will be used up as sick leave . Without a good job that pays for insurance , you won ' t be able to afford the care that would allow you to hold down a good job . It ' s brutal and inhuman . My last month in the US , I paid out $ 4 k for my prescriptions without insurance . My first month in the UK I paid 56 for the exact same prescriptions , and now I ' m on the discount prescription program where I pay 110 year for all the prescriptions I can eat . That ' s less than I was paying per month in the US with pretty good insurance . This one thing alone has changed my life radically . I don ' t have to have a full time job . I can start my own business . And if I do get a full time job , even if I have to take sick days , they still have to give me vacation ! Every British person who hears my accent asks me why I ' d want to live here instead of the US . I ' ve given up trying to explain the vastness of the homeless problem , the holes in the social safety net , the ruinously expensive medical care . They just say But the weather is nice there . I consider needing to wear a sweater some days a small price to pay for the privilege of living in a country that doesn ' t let its citizens freeze to death behind dumpsters and die for lack of medical care , but by all means , British people , go to Texas or Las Vegas or something . Just don ' t get sick .