If you get sick, you can die. Is that the "natural liberty" you're so keen to preserve?
Average Americans can no longer tolerate our system where SHEER LUCK determines whether a catastrophic illness brings bankruptcy and ruin.
Bad luck can bring ruin for almost anything.
In Connecticut there are a bunch of houses that were built with bad foundations from a single company in the 1980's-90's. If your foundation is failing, your house is uninsurable and is basically uninhabitable. People's $300,000 investment is worthless overnight.
Do we get the government to step in and protect us from all forms of possible failure?
Bankruptcy sucks, but it's not death. And Bankruptcy, from what I've heard, is not the financial kiss of death it's often presented as. If you search online you'll find that people's credit is often repaired well before the 7 years it technically lasts on your credit report.
In any system on earth you will find horror stories. There are plenty of horror stories from socialized systems when you start to dig. I don't even believe those are the norms in those systems.
People who hate our system tend to take a few general numbers, like longevity, without considering the very complex factors that goes into those numbers.
Here's an interesting number you won't see publicized:
Heart attack survivablity rates in the US are very good (although liberals say that for the money we spend, not so).
So would you rather be debt-free or alive?
There are huge massive problems with our system, and just repeating that "we have the best system" (as some in the GOP have done in the past) falls flat with people for good reason. But just declaring that our system is unsolvably terrible and needs to be completely scrapped is just as wrong IMO.