Once again, you just don't know most of the people on this website, or their backgrounds.  Nor do Izzy and Migeru who so happily give your comment a 4.

In my case, I know many, many patients and people with health issues--both from the patient side since I have had perhaps an unusual amount of illness in my immediate family (if you hang out in treatment centers for cancer, you meet a lot of patients and their family--I hope you are lucky enough not to find this out), and from the professional side since I've been involved in developing products for doctors to treat patients (and yes you meet them, watch them treated, etc.) and involved in home health care.

The three of you have these arrogant attitudes that preclude anyone who has a different view than yours as to how economies can best run, from being compassionate people, that also want the best for mankind.    You don't allow that people that work in companies that develop and make products to help people in their lives, do this partially because they are compassionate people.  (I'm no real exception--there are literally hundreds of thousands of people like me that do this for a living, and feel wonderful when a product that they participate in developing, or show a doctor how to use on a patient,,that feel personally rewarded.  they devote their lives to this--and you are ignorant of that, or just outright reject it.)  This I am better than you attitude is disgusting to me.  The idea that I don't talk to patients, know people with problems, try to help them as best I can--you are a supercillious bunch, that is for sure!

Unfortunately I have the long term care issue as well, with a parent.  also no long term care insurance.  still hard for me to see a multi-millionaire going bankrupt, but I obviously don't know the care requirements, and I imagine in some cases that could be a lot.

I wonder how that situation is handled in the UK or France?  I honestly don't know.