Except you're tone deaf trivializing systemic evil as a banal "business misunderstanding".
I was roadtripping through Redding, CA several years back. While in line at a coffee, I ran across a young lady with a nasal infusion pump tube taped to her face arranging some paperwork. After chatting, she informed me she had Stage IV cancer and the hospitals and doctors were coming after her for every cent she had while she was dying, and it forced her into bankruptcy. The paperwork was for her bankruptcy hearing across the way.
This is what happens when for-profit health insurance and hospitals are allowed to exist because every other sensible advanced economy in the world has universal healthcare. The disconnect is American patients don't know how bad they have it: their financial liability is essentially unlimited, they pay far more, and have worse outcomes.
> This is what happens when for-profit health insurance and hospitals are allowed to exist because every other sensible advanced economy in the world has universal healthcare
Many of those universal systems have for-profit insurance and for-profit hospitals too.
A nasty truth is when people are terminally ill, the vultures emerge. With animals too. In socialist paradise your kids dispossessed because inheritance is immoral. In capitalist paradise, dispossessed because the hospital can charge the captive buyer limitlessly. Doesn't matter what system, the order of life plays out.
Humans are chimps with high order skills to do the same chimp shit and explain it away with various fictions.
No, the American system is measurably worse. Dying destitute of a preventable cause is a uniquely American phenomenon contrasted to Western nations with socialized healthcare within capitalist frameworks.
I was roadtripping through Redding, CA several years back. While in line at a coffee, I ran across a young lady with a nasal infusion pump tube taped to her face arranging some paperwork. After chatting, she informed me she had Stage IV cancer and the hospitals and doctors were coming after her for every cent she had while she was dying, and it forced her into bankruptcy. The paperwork was for her bankruptcy hearing across the way.
This is what happens when for-profit health insurance and hospitals are allowed to exist because every other sensible advanced economy in the world has universal healthcare. The disconnect is American patients don't know how bad they have it: their financial liability is essentially unlimited, they pay far more, and have worse outcomes.