Americans are putting off medical treatment in record numbers because of cost

Not just (North?) Americans. Health insurance in general is overpriced due to multiple market distortions. Governments don't seem to want or, more likely, be able to fix this in a systemic way. So many vested interests.

Which then results in higher costs later, which they also cannot afford, but if they collapse (or similar) leading to someone taking them to hospital they’re bankrupted anyway.

That also increases pressure on emergency departments (which is already an expensive treatment system for anything)

Probably true in general, but I wonder about iatrogenic effects. (i.e., doctors making things worse)

View complete study > https://news.gallup.com/file/poll/269087/191206Pre-Existing....

The entire medical industrial complex needs a bloody audit and re-architecture from the ground up.

I'd love to join a research group working on something like this if possible. Anyone know of one?