The US has a strange relationship with healthcare. and by that I don't mean professionals in white coats, I mean people taking care of their health in general,

The US has a strange relationship with healthcare. and by that I don't mean professionals in white coats, I mean people taking care of their health in general, of which visits to white coated professionals is only a small part. People seem to have this attitude they can spend money (or have someone else spend money) instead of taking care of themselves. Take a pill instead. Some think every little thing is an emergency or are otherwise unreasonably terrified (Recent Covid scare comes to mind. A very real and serious disease but some people inaccurately assess their risk and become neurotic). Unfortunately it doesn't work like buying a new car. Many years back I dated a girl who was a physical therapist. She loved going to the doctor and hospital. When she felt slightly sad she would get "sick" and go get some attention which she paid through the nose for. I'm exactly the opposite and likely to Steve Jobs myself to death in the end. I've read (don't know how true it is) that Americans take something like 60% of the worlds prescription drugs. The whole thing is completely unbalanced and I don't believe other areas of the world are like this. Because of this I don't see an easy solution for the US. The government taking over health care is likely to result in deep dissatisfaction but the current system is super wasteful and frankly just bonkers. The thing people don't want to understand for some reason is reality. Sometimes we feel bad. Sometimes we get sick. Eventually we will die. Sometimes medical professionals can help. Very often they cannot but that won't prevent them from billing you large sums of money. Also it's not rare for professionals to worsen the situation. Incentives are not always aligned and the body is a very complex system. Throw the US mid level manager hospital pharma insurance scam complex in the mix and incentives misalign even further. The best dentist I've ever been to was in Mexico. Light years ahead of what I'd experienced in the US without the ceremony. The best doctor I've ever been to is an old time country veterinarian in his 60's. But that was for my dogs. Real practical sense a and humility with an eye to results and the understanding of uncertainty involved. I've always thought that's who I would like to treat me in the event of serious illness and practically speaking there little no reason he couldn't in most cases because I'm not very different then my dogs physically. In neither case was the hospital-pharma-insurance scam complex involved. That groups has made things immensely worse and killed large numbers of people. Don't get me started on psych drug overuse in the US.