YC Research: Universal Healthcare
Universal Healthcare is when a society is actually "rich" or "wealthy" in terms of truly having more than enough resources to perform essential care wholesale at no cost to patients,<p>and after that, when society chooses to prioritize the health care of all its citizens high enough to give equal care to all.<p>This doesn't usually happen, even in societies where the consistent waste of resources exceeds the total cost of universal healthcare.<p>Considering the resource shortage or surplus, when healing treatments are not denied to any needy members of society, that could be a fundamental marker of civilization, and an obvious measure of which societies are more advanced and which are more retarded.