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As I read only two days ago on Lemmy:

• America pays US$1.8T/yr for the government (non-user-fee) part of healthcare delivery costs, and users are still required to pay HUGE sums and/or force their insurers to pay for a sizeable portion.

• 6 EU nations with 335M people altogether pay US$1.2T/yr (or 1/3 less) and their people don't pay a cent for service.

So already the USGov is paying 50% more than it needs to pay if it wanted to offer a similarly free-for-the-patient kind of healthcare as is provided by 8 of the top 10 happiest nations. It's just such a broken system that merely locking it down to single-payer would save half a trillion US dollars a year and ensure equal healthcare access for all once the reorg was complete. And Obama knew.

Obama's only mistake was thinking he'd be allowed to start that process.

"Rich people's yacht money has made an historic recovery in spite of fears of a recession, while working families continue to struggle to afford rent and groceries and are under the constant threat that an unforeseen expense will render them homeless."