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.
“She could pay out of pocket for most basic medical treatments”
The only “medical treatments” we got were home remedies and over the counter medicines. None of us ever had a “pediatrician”. Mothers learned from their mothers and from their friends - experiences of what “worked” and didn’t work. They were the “doctors”.