Health “insurance” may be part of problem; however, I believe the financial incentives hospitals received from COVID were a driving factor.
Different figures were reported, but clearly it was extremely profitable to diagnose with COVID and put people on Vent and Remdesivir.
There were news accounts of several patients being held hostage in a COVID ward being rescued by their loved ones.
Happened to my husband’s BIL and my brother in January 2022. Both died 2 weeks after being admitted to the hospital. They were in the ER, then the ICU, on a ventilator and Remdesivir after 5 days. Two different hospitals in 2 different cities in SoCal.
I’m lucky I was a very early adopter (first week of 2020).
“There were news accounts of several patients being held hostage in a COVID ward being rescued by their loved ones.”
We did that in May.