See, I usually agree 100% percent with anyone who says anything about how the American way of life is indulgent, unsustainable, and generally crappy, but having had positive experiences with the health care system I feel somewhat disinclined to criticize it. I personally believe that general medical care cannot work very well in our culture/system simply because we are over indulgent and self centered. We do almost everything in excess especially unhealthy things, and we can't cover everybody when every Dick, Tom, and Laurie (Yes I included a woman in that phrase) is trying to beat the next girl/guy. Only a system that fosters an appreciation for the collective well being can work as such. We have some social medical care now, but hardly enough to cover each sick person. Anyway, here is my family's experience with the health care system in America:

My mother was generally positive about the health care system, at least in our experience with it. She said her her experience was mixed; she had had both expensive and affordable health coverage, but either way it was good. My whole family is covered by HMOs. My parents are covered by Oxford health care provided by my mothers job. They pay monthly. My brother and I are covered by Blue Cross, Blue Shield which is an HMO of NYC. We only pay $15 per person each month, a surprisingly low amount. My mother claimed that we have never really spent much time in the emergency room, in fact the most extreme surgery we ever had was a double hernia removal when I was only 3 years old. We've gone to the doctor for the occasional checkup or minor ailment, and each time we only waited for a fairly short time. Something my mother also emphasized was that hospitals prioritize treatment for children over that for adults. So, yes, they did have to wait a while, but the treatment was always good regardless of the cost or time spent waiting.
We have also been quite fortunate in that we have never dealt with any massive medical bills or denial of treatment. We have, as I stated before, always had great health coverage. We did, however, have a close friend with cancer that was refused treatment because; a.)he could not afford it, and b.) he had never had any health insurance in the past. He was also one of the laziest, most indulgent and self centered people my family has ever met, so in a way it makes sense; he really didn't earn his keep.
When I asked my mother weather or not she had wonderful experiences with doctors she replied "yes." In fact our very first pediatrician was both a wonderful human being and a terrific doctor. His name was Dr. Heiss and I remember going there every so often for a checkup or a cold and he was always so sweet to us, making jokes and playing with us while simultaneously providing us with some of the best medical care. He even gave us lolipops at the end of each visit. Even the receptionists were kind and accomodating. And the cost was never an issue; it was fairly casual actually; they would allow us to delay payments and get back to them when we could. We stayed there for about 10 years.
Our current general practitioner shares similar qualities.
I would have to disagree with the idea that doctors are generally unpleasant, money-grubbing, pricks, if anything they are just tiny cogs in the wheel allowing it to continue spinning. They are merely products of a fucked up system. My grandmother had a doctor that, even after retiring, cared for her and her entire family for free until about a week before his death.
Having had such positive experiences with the health care system and doctors in general I feel unable to complain about how much it has helped me. Even now I visit some form of doctor each week to satisfy my hypochondria and I would not willingly give up my ability to do so. Yet, I still full heartedly agree with Michael Moore; any system that denies people health coverage to those with more severe illnesses and rewards their workers for doing so simply because it saves them money, is truly evil. It practically defeats the point of health coverage.
In the end, I can only say that while it works for me now I still feel that it could be even better, for me and the rest of the country. After all, what works for the individual may not work for the rest of the population. Working solely for oneself divides the people because it creates power imbalances. In systems that do have general health care people are willing to help one another and go into it/are raised ready to pay for universal solidarity in medicine and/or all other aspects of a society. The idea that general health care is sluggish and weak is a product of pointless American anti-socialism and is disproven by the flourishing health systems in foreign countries.