If medical coverage is not a necessity, what is it?

[The Fury]

SlayerRondo said:

sales2099 said:
This is why I like living in Canada. Taxed up the ass, but hey, free medical care.

At the cost of time and money the Canadian, along with most other medical systems suffers from poor competition as a result of people not caring about the cost. 

Consider me a stupid British citizen happy to pay into a system that provides care when I (or any member of my family) need it regardless of problem but how is countries having an NHS bad for competition? especially when the idea of competition in healthcare is rediculous to me.

NHS spend what money they can to provide the best service they can and don't worry about if insurance companies 'pay up' or a sick person has the correct type of insurance. If you want to pay more, we have BUPA.

This said, I may be misunderstanding your point.