How important is having health insurance for your family?

If you live in the UK, or in most of the rest of Europe, private health insurance is unnecessary, as the various National Health Services provide free health care. This service is funded by taxation and National Insurance contributions ( a form of taxation). You can take out health insurance, as it helps you to jump the queue and go to a private clinic; but most people are happy with the standard service.


President Obama is trying, as Hilary Clinton once did, to introduce a similar scheme to the USofA; but the local rednecks and half-wit "frontiersmen" think that this must be a commie plot. Let's hope that Obama succeeds!