@icetoad.eth

Software, cellphones, toys, and TVs are the only things that have gotten cheaper in the last 25 years. This almost makes TVs look free at this point lol. That said, healthcare and college prices are out of control. Very little has been done to contain the costs of these. Healthcare has gotten more expensive across the world, but the U.S. system is far and away the most inefficient. Americans are spending 8x as much as Chileans, and even 2x as much as Canadians to their north, to achieve a life expectancy that isn't even as high. Moving away from a privatized system and to a universal, single-payer system, like the rest of the developed world, would go a long way towards reducing costs here. Estimates suggest this would save Americans $450-$650 billion annually. Even if it is only $450 billion, this would be 13% savings right away. We are talking purely about economics here, but moving beyond that I think most people would agree that access to healthcare should be a human right. ~10% of Americans do not have health insurance and this number will increase in 2026-2028 because of the Trump's Big Ugly Bill and the balloon cost of the system. This is unacceptable in the richest country in the world.

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