Our illnesses, sicknesses, gunshot wounds, or poor teeth from no fluoride in the water (Florida, Utah) is just pure profit for America's greedy privatized healthcare system.
All countries with universal healthcare for their residents do the exact opposite of the US because they want their populations healthy so as not to drain their national treasuries.
A veteran told me that after the Second World War, some POWs and Displaced Persons (DPs) held in German or Austrian lagers decided to stay in Austria or Germany because every month local physicians or nurses would come by and treat the wounded or sick, and provide dental care and vaccinations. No cost to the POWs or DPs. The lagers were well maintained and clean.
When the post-war agreements were finally settled, the lagers were closed and the DPs had a few choices to emigrate to (e.g. the US, UK, Canada, or anywhere non-USSR). .
But one DP said, "If they let me, I'll stay here in Austria," and he did.
Prior to that, captured Russian soldiers from the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) were shipped to Japan for interment.
After the brief war, some of these Russian POWs decided to stay in Japan because they were well treated and the hygiene protocols and gentility were superior to the "Cossackish" and brutal life they left behind in Tsarist Russia.
Kobe Japan grew more as a "gaijin" entrepot and those Russians that adapted Japanese ways prospered: onlinelibrary.wiley.com
