My cousin who lives in Europe where they have government run health care was in an accident and hospitalized for 6 weeks with a fractured lower spine and a broken hip before she had surgery. She can now only walk a half a block without being in severe pain. She is in her 40's and will live this way the rest of her life because of the immediate attention she did not receive because of the government health care plan that Europe is under and that our government is trying to imply on us.