Ok, so that's one data point.
In Australia, our taxes cover most everything. You can choose to have private health insurance (and some do) but if you don't, you don't miss out on any essential care.
If I had had my daughter in the public system here, pre- and post-natal care, the delivery and hospital stay, would have cost me nothing. Every doctor's visit for her would cost me nothing. The process of getting her diagnosed with autism (long and with many appointments), would still have cost me something, but once diagnosed, her early intervention, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and other therapies are all covered by the government.
Our family chooses to have private health insurance and we pay less than half what you do, we do not pay for Medicare (that's what tax is for), and most of our medical expenses have no copay.
As I always end up asking in these threads, if Australia can do it, why can't America? You certainly have the population base to make it sustainable. But instead you let private companies fleece you all and call it freedom!
That anybody actually believes this is truly frightening to me. Especially the last part, which would seem to provide a divine mandate for war in particular circumstances.