Debt implies that we know there is a shortcoming and want/need to fix it, but don't have the time or knowledge. The healthcare situation in the US may have sta

Debt implies that we know there is a shortcoming and want/need to fix it, but don't have the time or knowledge. The healthcare situation in the US may have started out as a hacky WW2 era fix, but has been explicitly and aggressively lobbied against for years at the highests levels of government. Framing it in a technocratic context as "technical debt, but for laws and stuff" completely misses the intense crusade against it in the US.