Whilst the US has more self-made billionaires than Europe [0] the US has lesser social mobility than Europe (less the UK), rendering the idea of 'the American d

Whilst the US has more self-made billionaires than Europe [0] the US has lesser social mobility than Europe (less the UK), rendering the idea of 'the American dream' more a dream than a possibility [1, 2] Healthcare is a price-inelastic good. Not having some form of pricing controls is a licence to rip the heart out of a population. [0] https://howmuch.net/articles/billionaires-map https://howmuch.net/articles/billionaires-map [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/07/social-mobility-america/491240/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/07/social-... [2] https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/02_economic_mobility_sawhill_ch3.pdf https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/02_econ...