What makes you so sure? Perhaps that could add to the conversation.

When someone says "US has the healthcare provisions of a third world country" it's hard to take them serious.

I was being pretty inflammatory with that, no doubt. The US also has some of the most advanced healthcare in the world, so it's not accurate in that dimension. But what good is that if it's not accessible?

For some US' citizens, there may as well be no healthcare, as they're not willing to take on the burden of medical debt. They could technically access it, but not without changing the course of their life for the worse forever. That's not an issue for citizens in most developed nations.

There are countries far far lower on the economic leaderboard than the US who do provide reasonable access to healthcare for their citizens, and of course the majority of developed nations do as well. The US is behind, and it's not because of increased opportunity.

(I'm not the one downvoting you by the way, I don't mind the conversation)

What good does having the most advanced healthcare technology do for the country if only a tiny select few can afford it? It is better for a country to have average healthcare that is accessible to all rather than very advanced healthcare that is accessible to very few

The percentage of people with health insurance coverage for all or part of 2019 was 92.0 percent. - https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-27...

Please do not make misleading statements such as that it's accessible to a very few.

Do you wish to imply that all of that 92% really has access to the most advanced healthcare the country has to offer?

Yes, actually most of them do. Take CAR-T therapy for cancer. It was approved by public and private payers pretty quickly after FDA approval.