Well, there's two forces at work:
1. Capitalism never sleeps.
2. Current healthcare employs thousands of people who would be out of work in a medicare for all system.
While #1 is a horrid excuse, #2 is what controls the real world.
1. Capitalism never sleeps.
2. Current healthcare employs thousands of people who would be out of work in a medicare for all system.
While #1 is a horrid excuse, #2 is what controls the real world.
You dont need a bogeyman to see how the system remains the same.
I suspect this, plus other ways the US reports sheer waste as GDP to a much higher degree than most peer states, is the main reason folks report the US feeling a lot poorer than second-tier EU countries that on-paper have far lower GDP/capita, even with PPP adjustments. But the fake-healthcare-GDP is probably the single biggest culprit, being absolutely enormous.
How can they even tell that? Maybe people living in either place just have very different expectations.