50 claps for this article. The American health care system is not about health, it is about healthy dividends. Publicly-traded insurance companies are an obscenity that should be outlawed. From the obligation (by law) to put stockholders first come all the ills that you have had to live with.

Trump and friends are hardly likely to make any changes that favor patients! I dread seeing what "concepts of a plan" look like when the new plan is rolled out.

I live in France now, but had many issues with health care companies in America. The French system isn't perfect—the pandemic hit the personnel hard—but we never worry that illness is going to bankrupt us.

You didn't mention it but I looked at other articles and saw that you lost your Ana. My heart goes out to you.