Inheritance is tough. Death tax takes a good chunk.
Most people get very worried about “death tax”, until they do the numbers on their own estate and realise either it mostly doesn’t apply to them or it’s marginal.
In the UK this is often used as a major campaign point but the number of estates actually subject to it is quite small.
And spousal transfers are hardly generational (most of the time).
[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/inheritance-tax-lia...
1. https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
> Just over 7,100 estate tax returns will be filed for people who die in 2023, of which only about 4,000 will be taxable—less than 0.2 percent of the 2.8 million people expected to die in the year.
Source: https://taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-many-people-pa...
If you mean "the cost of end of life health care", sure, but anyone inheriting more than $12M can afford the taxes.