Americans have struggled through multiple presidential terms with concerns that the rest of the industrialized world has already fixed: Is health care a right or a privilege? Must medical services come with crushing costs for patients and their families? And should society provide a safety net to cushion the costs of getting sick?
In all other comparable countries, medical care is a right and nobody has to go bankrupt when they get really sick. Other countries have a variety of financing systems to take care of their residents, but no one gets cut out of the safety net.
In the United States, not so much...
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