It’s sad and remarkable to me that we’ve allowed healthcare cost to become so ruinous. I was born in 1962, so I have a pretty good memory of how things used to be compared to the way they are now.

I watched the frogs boil slowly in a pot as we all got poorer and poorer trying to pay for life-saving healthcare. I was my dad’s primary caregiver for the last several years until he died in the summer of 2020. The bills are still coming in even though he had Medicare and all the supplemental health insurance it made sense to buy.

Corporations want something like $100,000. His estate doesn’t have that and I don’t have that or anything close. If we had not been prescient enough to make sure the house was in my name a decade ago, I’d have lost the house.

That’s usually what happens, and it’s outrageous. No other developed country in the world makes healthcare ruinously expensive, not even nations that have much better healthcare than we do. I don’t understand why we don’t collectively do something about this.