Scenario 1: Mr Blobbo and I belong to a state run healthcasre system. We both pay our compulsory contributions. Mr Blobbo has a heart attack. The healthcare system treats him while his contributions and mine go towards defraying the cost.

Scenario 2. Mr Blobbo and I live in a country with no compulsory healthcare provision. Blobbo chooses to have expensive health insurance because he knows he runs a high risk of heart disease. I, being more confident and apparently more healthy, exercise my choice not to make any provision. One day, while out jogging, I am hit by a truck and am badly injured. Not only do I need immedate surgery requirning shattered bones to be pinned, blood transfusions and a long period of recouperation, but I must pay visits to hospital for the rest of my life for checkups and painkilling injections. I've got no money, so who pays?

Wonder how Mr Blobbo feels about that.