freestylah: Peple can live decades without access to any kind of professional health care, but won't survive more then a few days without food. Now last time I was in the Netherlands I was expected to pay for my food myself! Do you find solidarity lacking in this system? Do you honestly believe it would be better if the state just took say 100 euros every month from every citizen (more from the rich of course) and then redistribute food rations? That's basically how most European nationalized health care system work.