The concept of a mindest sicherung for every single person provided by the government does not exist in the US like in UK, particularly Germany.. It means providing basic needs of insurance to each and every individual for free by government.
Think about the health insurance revision Obama did and that everybody is so upset about. That same sort of thing has been established in Europe decades ago. Everyone is used to paying the price and no one would even think about complaining.
Maybe one fine day the US will get to a place of providing a mindest sicherung for their people too….. Does it make sense now why there cannot be any poor person in UK? 
