That's insane, my dad had cancer 3 years ago, and here in Spain we didn't even think about it (beyond of course the terrible situation). If you also want private insurance it will cost a youngish small family (like mine) 150EUR/month.
According to Google, person in Spain spends on average $4,432 per person per year with some $3,113 of that being paid by the government.
The US government pays out $6,000 per person per year or nearly TWICE as much.
The problem is that $6000 is still less than half of the $14,570 per person per year (2023) healthcare costs in the US.
And of course, the US government payments don't cover everyone equally. They only cover the elderly and some subset of the very poor (mostly kids).
The only fix is reducing US healthcare costs to something more like the rest of the world, but that requires sharing drug R&D costs evenly with other countries (raising your costs), reigning in insurance companies, eliminating over-credentializing of doctors and other medical professionals, fixing school cost/debt, and reducing/eliminating the massive amounts of unnecessary bureaucracy/paperwork (allowing doctors to reduce staff and see more patients per day which reduces overall medical costs).
We don't have any money to treat sick people, we need to make sure the networth of billionaires continues to grow.
We need to fund military bases all over the world and conflicts in places most of us can't find on maps.
You find how truly alone you are when you can't afford your medicine. No longer an "American" you're a freeloader, a parasite.
Perhaps God himself hates you.
And Blessed are the Billionaires for God gave them so much.
