Do people 'deserve' universal health care?

[steelish]

I belong to the first category of people because I consider that we have sufficient checks and balances in the UK to make sure that the "very bad" situation you dread is almost certain never to come about, and that's in a class-ridden country with an aristocracy which still controls the nation through its economy, regardless of what Parliament thinks, and where corruption is sanitised through the "Old Boy Network". If we have sufficient checks, then so have you.

But we DON'T have sufficient checks. Our Congress right now is not a balanced mix, it is heavily left wing. We need a equal number of left and right to maintain a balance.