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In reply to the discussion: Beware of People Pretending to Be on Our Side [View all]Celerity
(43,282 posts)a huge part of that is because it interfaces with a rapacious, for-profit wealth extraction scheme aka the American healthcare/pharma/insurance matrix, the single biggest multi-headed hydra of a scam on the planet.
People lost their minds back in in the day when the Sanders health plan was scored at 35-40 trillion usd or so over 10 years, but what most failed to account for was that the status quo cost, even with tinkering and tweaking to the ACA, etc, was at least 10-15 trillion USD more for the same period.
The US, pre COVID, was tracking to spend over 120 TRILLION USD on all healthcare costs over the 20 year period of 2018 to 2038.
Literally trillions upon trillions of dollars in potential profit. That is why it is so hard to get fundamental restructuring done.