> One thing that will not make healthcare less expensive is "Medicare For All". A large part of what makes American per-capita healthcare costs so outrageous i

> One thing that will not make healthcare less expensive is "Medicare For All". A large part of what makes American per-capita healthcare costs so outrageous is how much is treatment rather than prevention. Because going to a doctor is so expensive people just don't go, and then mundane problems that could have been fixed with at worst a routine surgery end up in an emergency room on life support expending a hundred thousand dollars of resources a day to correct. Thats in addition to substantive productivity losses incurred by people being sick all the time without the financial resources to actually fix their ailments. Even when you have health insurance the absurd deductibles mean you can't see a doctor anyway without being out the equivalent of half the months food or your entire utility bill. It is absolutely imperative that any nations people have affordable access to medical professionals before they are suffering ill from all the things they noticed were off but didn't want to become indebted over.