> Does this not seem absolutely absurd to anybody else? It is obviously an insane way to run healthcare. But for the majority of US citizens, they've never exp

> Does this not seem absolutely absurd to anybody else? It is obviously an insane way to run healthcare. But for the majority of US citizens, they've never experienced anything else. So this insanity is considered totally normal to them. Medical bankruptcy isn't just a thing, it's an expected outcome of any major illness -- medical bills are the most common reason for bankruptcy in the US. If the US just switched to a proper universal national healthcare system (like say, a clone of UK's NHS), for even just one month, America would never go back to the way it is today. Not suggesting that UK's system is perfect, but it's so much objectively better than the US system that there would riots in the streets, if anyone suggested going back to today's US system. Which is why we see so much lying about how terrible socialized medicine is, and so much money/time poured into preventing Americans from learning/experiencing it in any way.