"Free" healthcare in Japan? Healthcare in Japan is NOT "free". Not to be rude, but you saying so is ignorant and irresponsible.
The diction I used might have been too generalized. Japan does in fact use the private industry to provide health-care, but its regulated by the government and provides many
free services to patients, thus making it have many facets of a free health-care system. Yes, there are some medical procedures one has to pay for in Japan, but prices are set by means of a
government and not the free-market. Irresponsible, no. Your reaction melodramatic? Yes.