@Smartis Most of us wish we could get healthcare that was free at point of service for everybody in the US. Single-payer insurance is incredibly popular. But it won't ever happen due to a variety of political reasons (chiefly: it'd be easy to gin up opposition against any particular plan by leveraging peoples' fear of loss of their current coverage).
It's not quite that you need to be rich to get good healthcare. What you need is good insurance. And that's possible for some in the US. The problem is there's a lot of luck involved. Get the right job, live in the right place, or have the right special circumstances. That's, fundamentally, why the system keeps limping along. Enough people have reasonable insurance that even if they see the problems, they are likely to be fearful of change.
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@Smartis Most of us wish we could get healthcare that was free at point of service for everybody in the US. Single-payer insurance is incredibly popular. But it won't ever happen due to a variety of political reasons (chiefly: it'd be easy to gin up opposition against any particular plan by leveraging peoples' fear of loss of their current coverage).
It's not quite that you need to be rich to get good healthcare. What you need is good insurance. And that's possible for some in the US. The problem is there's a lot of luck involved. Get the right job, live in the right place, or have the right special circumstances. That's, fundamentally, why the system keeps limping along. Enough people have reasonable insurance that even if they see the problems, they are likely to be fearful of change.