But overall, you pay far more for your healthcare than people in, say, the UK, or Canada, or Scandinavia, and with poorer outcomes. From a user point of view the difference between a tax paid to the government and a premium paid to an insurance company is a matter of semantics. You pay more money for inferior results.
But really, this isn't a debate for here. Can we just agree to differ and return to discussing the aviation business in HK?