Well, if you want to compare 1961 and 2017, it all depends on your criteria. As you mention healthcare, healthcare today is light years ahead of where it was then.
So for healthcare, we would not want to go back to the old days.
I’ve had similar discussions with people, who can’t believe that anyone has nostalgia for the ‘50s, for example. Their criteria were that gays were in the closet, blacks faced Jim Crow laws and segregation, and women were discriminated against.
So we can all point to things about today, which we prefer to the past. And talk about some nice things about the past which are not part of life today.
“and women were discriminated against.”
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I WAS a woman in the 50s-———and loved it.
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The hitech in healthcare was ahead, but the professional care wasn’t.
When’s the last time your family doctor made a regular house call?