In my travels, I've seen people alive and well and thriving under state-run health care, thankyouverymuch. To the point where I've been to visit my "serrogate" family's elderly matron in her state-run, elder-care house, where she lived alone in a normal life environment, but still had an emergency call button in all rooms to call the actual eldercare building a few doors down. I very good system on both counts if you ask me.