Wonder why he was so adamant to return to the US for treatment of his TB, instead of staying in Italy?

The media ignored the reasoning behind why Speaker acted in what they presented as recklessly risking the spread of a deadly disease. Surely, it would be preferable to undergo free, or at the very least, cheap treatment in a country with what the World Health Organization calls the second best health care system in the world, right behind France, than it would to be to chance being treated in number 37″”the US (which ranks below Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Morocco, Dominica and Costa Rica””all WHO examples of better health care). Instead he risked arrest to find his way to America, the home of what the media characterize as a capitalist rip-off.