You're talking about the ticket price for the service when that really shouldn't be the consideration. It doesn't matter how affordable it is when most US citiz

You're talking about the ticket price for the service when that really shouldn't be the consideration. It doesn't matter how affordable it is when most US citizens can't cover a $500 emergency with savings. It's a shameful, political choice to have people walking around with curable blindness. Or to have people rationing insulin. The body is a temple but the temple is made of meat. It's inevitable at some point that you'll be sick. We may as well bake that assumption into the social contract than try to treat it as any other good or service. Can't exactly shop around hospitals when you're in an ambulance, unconscious.