The great equalizer? I call bullshit on that! People with comprehensive medical insurance (aka. privileged) had the luxury of getting prompt medical care and recovering if they got sick! Everybody else had to suffer or accept what they could get.

So accute was the problem that even Meghan McCain (Ms. Princess of Arizona herself) clued into the fact that there are massive inequalities when it comes to health care and medical access in the U.S.