the problem with medicare is that it caused repeat business on a grand scale.
Modern allopathic medicine is second-to-none in dealing with acute and critical care interventions but is dreadfully deficient in emphasizing the critical importance of proper nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle choices in managing wellness. This end of the medical spectrum is almost entirely under the patient's control, which is why it is ignored. The sad reality is there is no constituency for true "health care", only for "disease care", so the result is a system designed to create as many "sick" people as possible who can demand ever greater and more costly levels of "care" for their conditions.