We are not lucky to live in a country with the most expensive healthcare despite having worse mobility, mortality and disparities than almost every other first world country. The healthcare system has been completely destroyed by insurance companies and private equity.

That's like losing 9 fingers and thinking you're lucky because you still have one.

Lol - I love this perspective. You wouldn't happen to be employed by UnitedHealthcare, would you?

And this is why the very concept of health insurance is flawed from the start. Health care should not be a profit center. We pay taxes to the government (in the USA) to provide communally needed structures and services such as roads, utility poles, streetlights, and emergency services to name a few examples. Everyone should be paying a little bit more in taxes to provide medical care for everyone, just like they do in so many other nations.

Making a profit off of people's illness and misfortune is frankly obscene.

Doctors do get paid every time you go to them. Does that mean they're incentivized to keep you sick?

Also, in theory they invest the money, which means that they have more money to pay out.

Unfortunately, with no regulation and oversight, they can also just not pay out at all. Perhaps the US should try regulating its capitalism just q bit :S

That's strange... I don't feel lucky

https://youtu.be/J_swGiAHhbQ

ETA- Free Luigi!