If America had universal healthcare then testing and treatment alone would be functioning at more than third world levels. The number of Americans who die because even insured - sometimes especially insured people will be literally bankrupted by easily treatable and preventable conditions is astonishing.
and all that leads to other issues that cost everyone else vast sums of money to address the damage to the economy.
I keep seeing complex matrices of explanations but it's extremely simple:
We monetized health from cradle to grave. We opened up our wellbeing to hucksters and charlatans and parasitical middle men and put no rational limits on what they can charge- and we tied even having healthcare to employers to offset the costs and lubricate the economy with the blood of serfs.
