People stay healthy here in Britain because we fear getting ill.
Not really joking. Having a cruddy health-care system, with all its many horror stories, really does make you more careful about your personal well-being.
I don’t understand why so many Americans think that the solution to some people not having the same access to health care as others is to take away the access from the others and make everyone equally worse off. Seems bassackward to me, but that’s modern liberalism for you.