But a lot of Americans who built up a tolerance for this system, accepting it as, I suppose, a price of freedom, see the sinister side clearly now. Obamacare opened eyes. It has made a lot of people think about health care and question, if not fully reject, its for-profit nature. Americans who need prescription drugs pay far more to stay alive than people in other countries — the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, for example — and that raises the costs of health care generally.