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> I think healthcare in the US is riddled with ways to "accidentally"* spend the entire accumulation of your wealth, leaving absolutely nothing to the next generation.

That's not true, the money isn't just lost. The money is passed to the children of the person who extracts the money from the sick people. It's by design.

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The money isn't passed on intact though. At the end of the day we pour a huge proportion of our real production - human hours of labour - into prolonging the lives of people who are barely remembering or experiencing anything.