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>>wallfl+(OP)
From the European POV this is awful and marginally scary. A commenter down the article writes that she is gonna sell her mother's house in order to serve her and even that will not last long.

The way US health care functions is an argument that the nation's principles (all free capitalism and no public intervention) are problematic.

If I were POTUS for a season, I would make a volcanic erruption in the health system. If I needed to care an elder without insurance, I would pay out of pocket a willing friend or even a homeless and not proceed to euthanasia as a commenter suggested.

>>tsouka+vk1
We have a ton of public intervention in health, it’s just not very well done. The US government spends more per capita on health care than other developed countries, while covering only a fraction of the population. We’ve had universal health care for almost forty years, it’s just bad and nobody wants to call it that. A law called EMTALA says hospital emergency rooms can’t turn people away for being unable to pay, so anyone can get care, just in a very inefficient way. Properly covering everybody is Socialism(tm) and therefore isn’t in the cards.