“...the healthcare mess....”
hard to call it a mess when 70% of the country is satisfied with their current healthcare situation.
Though I do agree that the current situation with numerous intertwined third party payers is inefficient & wasteful.
Also realize that a certain percentage of our late in life healthcare problems are caused by our earlier in life lifestyle choices. Any honest MD will tell you that! My MD son-in-law sees this all the time. People come to him after a life of heavy drinking, smoking & drug use and now they’re in the 60s-70s want him to fix it all!
The government doesn’t help with is heavy subsidies to the sugar industry.
Not really.
I got laid off at 50, after 25 years with the same company and 30 years of honest and found my (long time controlled with diet and exercise) diabetes was now a ‘pre-existing condition’. Worked my whole life by the rules, and then screwed. If I had a more chronic health problem it would have been very dire. There simply has to be a way to ensure healthcare for people who have been productive citizens and done what they should (not druggies, smokers, fatties or bums) if things get bad later in life.
I’m good, having landed a job that has coverage after a year, but if I hadn’t, well, with healthcare , anything, and any cost beats nothing.
Do you have a cite for the 70% figure, please?