Patients are the Health Care System's Unpaid Labor

Leave it to Vox to expect the government and the system to figure out all of life's problems for you. This has to be written by a millennial.

Would you say that I am 'unpaid labor' because I have to do all the work of finding a good university? How about buying a new car?

I've dealt with many government agencies and if you think government-run care will be any better than what you describe, you're dreaming.