My mom had eight children raised from the 1940s through 1950s into the 1960s; we never had health insurance. How in the hell did we survive!?!?!?
Health care has gone from 5% of GDP to 20% of (a much larger) GDP.
Most of it to administrators and a lot to insurance companies, big pharma, and corporate medicine.
She could pay out of pocket for most basic medical treatments because she wasn’t subsidizing the healthcare for retirees on 30 year retirements, a hundred million foreigners who don’t belong here, and probably an equal number of shiftless layabouts on Medicaid.
$2 office visits.