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We're not lacking in "system", that's part of what we're overpaying so much for. It's the "care" part that's lacking.
Oh we have really good care, if you can pay for it.
And none of us can afford the really good care, we go broke trying to afford the over worked, beaten down healthcare staff doing the best they can with what little they have.
Remember during the pandemic they were literally wearing trash bags to take care of people?
"For [the 6 measured conditions], the health outcomes of White US citizens living in the 1% and 5% richest counties are better than those of average US citizens but are not consistently better than those of average residents in many other developed countries, suggesting that in the US, even if everyone achieved the health outcomes of White US citizens living in the 1% and 5% richest counties, health indicators would still lag behind those in many other countries."
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2774561
Overall the US spends way more per capita on its healthcare than any other country (both in absolute terms and as a percent of GDP), and yet has the worst healthcare outcomes of any developed nation.
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2021/aug/mirror-mirror-2021-reflecting-poorly
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2023/jan/us-health-care-global-perspective-2022
https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low
POSIWID. Purpose of a system is what it does.
I’m this case, extract as much money as possible from the population.