"Healthcare" is a strong word for what passes for medical treatment in the US. We have the most expensive system in the world, yet are near the bottom in healthy outcomes. Our life expectancy is actually going down.
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/quality-u-s-healthcare-system-compare-countries/There is just no money to be made from a healthy populace, and cash is king here in the good ole USA. Sickcare is big business though, and the food producer lobbyists make sure we don't regulate poisons like glyphosate and chemical additives, while the sickcare industry rakes in the cash treating heart disease, diabetes, autism and cancer.
As long as profit is the goal of sickcare rather than positive patient outcomes, we will continue to pay the most to get the least in sickcare. I spend thousands of dollars each year to be able to see doctors who have no idea or care about how to give quality medical treatment.
I kid you not, I asked my previous "doctor" about whether I was getting to the age that I may need a colonoscopy, and he recommended Celexa, which I declined. He said this would help me not to worry about colon cancer. He kind of missed the point. I don't want to not worry about it, I want to not have it. My newest "doctor" is straight out of med school, and is American somehow. He set me up for a colonoscopy without me even asking because I'll be 50 next year.
My wife went to the doctor with her one of her eyes infected to nearly shut, and sores on her face. The doctor told her it was pink eye, and to walk it off. It turned out to be shingles, and she nearly lost vision in one eye. After many expensive trips to the eye doctor, she is better and her vision is minimally affected. The same doctor told me my sick 10 year old just had a cold, and after taking him BACK to a DIFFERENT doctor, it turned out to be a double ear infection. It was so bad that they thought he had stuck something in his ear, but it was his bulging ear drum.
For several thousand dollars a year, I would hope we could have quality sickcare like, I don't know, Zimbabwe or Tajikistan. Sickcare and the border are two of the greatest failures of our government. Where is our MediCare for all Joe? I think Congress should have to buy their insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplace, and go to the local doctor. As long as they get the millionaire treatment when they get sick, they won't understand the problem.
I feel for the United Healthcare CEO's family, but when you scam people for a living, sometimes there are consequences. The assassin's punishment should be a lifetime membership to United Healthcare (which is MY current insurance, switched to Anthem for 2025) and time served.