America going to Single Payer makes that "post antibiotic apocalypse" inevitable. When the government has takes on all medical and "insurance" expenses then medical R&D has to compete with the military and vote purchase welfare spending for funding. Medical R&D will be low on the list. It does not buy and hold votes. If Medicine and Insurance were to be turned totally over to the Free Market we would not be talking about such an "apocalypse." There are projects working now that, if allowed to continue by the prospect of recouping the cost in the initial pricing, will shift the antibiotic paradigm to a new class of treatments that don't elicit mutations that render the new treatment progressively less effective.
Politicians cannot be worried about the end of antibiotics because that is something that won't happen This Year which is their max horizon for things that are not the primary ideological goal.
There's another factor I see all around me. Everyone gets a medical cure for everything because "it's coverered". There's no financial or healing incentive to stay healthy or heal by boosting the immune system, healthy nutrition/lifestyle and wise use of inexpensive natural cures. These items aren't covered and take time. There's not even much incentive to come up with new solutions (expensive or inexpensive) because the insurance companies dictate people's choices.
None of this bodes for a healthy future, if people won't recognize that the best healing machine is the human body, if properly maintained.
