Oh come on, you can't seriously be comparing TV, a mostly pointless luxury item to life saving health care? I'll be the first to admit that the US health care system is a complete nightmare, but TV? It could go away entirely for all I care, most of us would probably be better off and might not need as much health care, IMO watching TV is a waste of time and most Americans anyway watch far too much of it. If I had cable TV for free I still wouldn't bother to hook it up.
I don't even know how fast my internet is, that's how much I care. It has enough bandwidth to stream HD video, it's reliable and always on, what else matters? I think it's 25/25Mb, used to be 10Mb and that was fast enough that I wouldn't have paid extra to get more but they bumped it up at some point. Infrastructure like internet is relatively expensive in the US because it is a massive country with many of our 50 states being larger than entire nations in Europe. There are vast swaths of sparsely populated land where the cost per customer would be prohibitive if those of us in the heavily populated coastal areas didn't pay a bit more to subsidize those who otherwise would never be profitable to service.