It took my ex nearly dying from a massive heart attack (the surgeon gave her less than a 30% chance of recovery) to get her on Medicare.
If she had been left to the free market afterward, she would be dead now. She couldn’t work, so she wouldn’t have been able to earn the money to pay the premiums, much less the co-pays and deductibles.
Before the heart attack, she was working for a little bit more than minimum wage at a job that put a lot of physical stress on her.
Our entire system is fucked. The people that are in a position to fix it are so wealthy they never need to worry about experiencing it, so they can ignore it and it has no direct effect on them. The people they care about are also wealthy, so the same thing applies. Fixing it to help the people that don’t matter to them might dip their wealth a bit, so fucking no. Very insular and systemic. Depressing.
