Whenever I see an article about the US healthcare system, I’m forced to wonder: How is this system itself not a cruel and unusual punishment? Now obviously it’

Whenever I see an article about the US healthcare system, I’m forced to wonder: How is this system itself not a cruel and unusual punishment? Now obviously it’s because it isn’t applied as a punishment for a crime, which is I think the letter of the law. Still, it feels like we live in some Kafka-esque nightmare where a huge number of things the US government ought to take care of are outright cruel… and that the cruelty is the point.