A Boring Dystopia

What is the alternative? These people live in high cost care facilities on the taxpayer’s dime for 10-20 years?

Yes. For fuck's sake yes. I don't understand how Americans are the most evil people in the world so consistently. Even Israelis, of whom 80% support a genocide, understand that healthcare is a public service.

My mother and grandmother were both in full time care facilities for the last 5-10 years of their lives. They cost 10-20K a month, or 120-200K a year. Social security only pays about 2K a month, and medicare doesn’t cover long term care, only short term care.

No, it didn't 'cost' that much. Over half of all healthcare costs are admin fees. As in non-healthcare related administration. That's without mentioning the fact the highest single cost in American healthcare is pharmaceuticals, which are priced in the US at 500-15,000% profit margin. This is not true IN THE ENTIRE REST OF THE WORLD.

Y’all act like it’s ‘so easy’ but these problems persist even in countries where healthcare is nationalized. The demand for healthcare resources is simple vast out supplies care that is available, especially as the population ages. Hence in ‘affordable’ healthcare systems you are still undeserved and it’s still expensive.

There is a difference between 'oh you'll have to wait a month to get seen for your chronic, but ultimately harmless condition' and 'if your dementia laden grandmother runs out of money we're going to dump her on the streets so she dies faster.'

If you cannot see that different, you are not a good person. Not on the inside.

Healthcare was great 40-50 year ago because people died young and medical technology was infantile. Now we can keep people alive on machines for decades.

Healthcare has literally never been better. Ever. In countries outside the US it has never been more accessible in human history. It has never been better staffed in human history, it has never produced better outcomes in human history.

US healthcare is CENTURIES behind other countries, and that's not an exaggeration. The entire concept of medical bankruptcy is a uniquely American idea in the 21st century, something only experienced by Americans, and hopefully will only ever be experienced by Americans ever again.