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.if america had ubi then none of this 'reopen the economy' shit would happen. people would have money, people can stay in and be safe, and just wait patiently until a cure comes. we wouldn't have to be locked for 18 months or whatever, probably had opened up the 'ecnomy' much sooner if we had a president and an administration that knew how to do the hard work properly to contain this... but didn't. god damn i can't wait for vote for biden in november so that i don't have to deal with this orange dumbass anymore
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.