A Freelancer's Forty-Three Years in the American Health-Care System
As noted in this article, it’s insane that the wealthiest country in the world doesn’t have universal healthcare. I know Medicare is complex and not nearly as straightforward  as I think too many people assume<p>Toward the end of the article, to quote:<p>&gt; At any rate, when it comes to medical care, what’s wrong with socialism? The existing American system, with its dazzlingly inefficient mix of public and private insurers and its legions of redundant paper shufflers, is not a persuasive argument against it. Canada, which does have universal health care, spends roughly half as much per capita as we do, yet has better outcomes, including an average life expectancy that’s more than four years longer than ours. In fact, according to the World Health Organization, the U.S. ranks just fortieth, worldwide, in life expectancy at birth. That’s a little bit better than Ecuador and Poland but a little bit worse than Turkey and Croatia.<p>I agree wholly with this. Arguably when one of the most complex government programs we have in the US is better than average than the options left with private insurance, even after all the political machinery that messes with Medicare and our system as a whole, it should be obvious by now we are doing it wrong