You would be poor, if you really got sick in the US.
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Even with insurance you can be decimated. The featured story reviews a man in his 50s who had insurance, developed pneumonia and was hospitalized for one month and came out with a nearly $500,000 bill. After insurance coverage, their bill was still over $400,000. This was in part due to the hospital’s policy of not just double billing for items but TRIPLE billing....
...the hospital’s total expenses for lab work in 2010 were $27.5 million. Its total charges were $293.2 million, meaning it charged patients about 11 times its costs for lab work.
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http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...are-costs.aspx
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about 56 million adults—more than 20 percent of the population between the ages of 19 and 64—will still struggle with health-care-related bills this year, according to NerdWallet Health. And if you think only Americans without health insurance face financial troubles, think again. NerdWallet estimates nearly 10 million adults with year-round health-insurance coverage will still accumulate medical bills that they can't pay off this year.
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/100840148
And we've gone way off topic. But the facts are, unless you are really wealthy, you run a big risk of going broke if you get sick in the US, even with insurance. I'd rather have a less than perfect system that saves your life, than a flawed one that ruins you for life. And the US system is far from perfect.