The global health-care collapse
I think the global problem is that medicine has improved so much that, unlike a hundred years ago, it&#x27;s impossible to provide the full extent of modern medicine (which is huge!) to everyone, so some form of rationing&#x2F;filtering is inevitable and necessary.<p>You can do the rationing through market forces, where people who can&#x27;t afford it get less care; you can do the rationing through some other allocation system (e.g. priority systems, or long queues, or lottery, or committee allocation) which in effect still mean that not all people get everything.<p>If you want to say &quot;In our society, everyone gets healthcare&quot; then you have do define &quot;healthcare&quot; narrowly, which includes some services but not everything technically possible - I mean, if we have services that take more than a man-month of labor for each month of prolonged life (and there are some) then that&#x27;s not possible to provide for everyone always even from a purely mathematical standpoint.<p>On the other hand, if you want to attempt to provide (nearly) everything to (nearly) everyone and avoid planned rationing of the available healthcare resources (which still comes up to more care for more people than it was 50 or 100 years ago) then the overload catches up to you as described in this article, and you get a collapse of the system.