Dinner With the Foote's

Not really an informational post, more just an interesting little rant that came up at dinner.
So apparently Stanford Hospital is going to establish their own HMO because the majority of their employees are getting healthcare through Kaiser. Now, on this topic, my mother said something along the lines of..
"Stanford needs to take care of their own people before they start to worry about fixing everybody else...and maybe the United States needs to think that way to."
What? Help our own impoverished and struggling people before going overseas to help everyone else with their problems? What? The U.S. has a hero complex? What? What?

What do you think?
Should we be fixing things here instead of spending time and effort overseas?
Or are we doing more good than harm?
Does the U.S. have a hero complex? Do you think our founding and our roots make us ENTITLED to this complex? (Ugh...I hate that word. Entitled. No one is entitled to ANYTHING. We all evolved from bacteria. Grow up.)

Anyway, discuss.