Indeed. It's easy to criticize from a distance, easy to be disgusted by egregious fraud by a rare few when it's trumpeted left and right by the media, deliberately harming the interests of the great majority. I too have been on 'both sides of the track' at times, and noticed that people who've never known real misfortune are most likely to criticize situations beyond their experience. Many people live with situations that the fortunate can hardly imagine.

What many people can't afford is preventive medicine. As a result, they arrive at the clinic or hospital with advanced disease that costs far more to treat. Anyone can understand this, and it makes perfect humane and fiduciary sense to make preventive visits as affordable as possible. That's the meaning of basic health care - and to deny it to anyone is illogical and mean-spirited.