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by js8 388 days ago
I don't see the problem. So medical and nursing care is expensive. We can change the society so that relatively more people work in those fields. Instead, we are cutting on those services. It's just a thinly disguised attack on the elderly.
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Healthcare share of economies is just trending up and up over time, there is very little cutting there. At best you go back a year or two sometimes, as you can see here.

So what you are asking for is already happening.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/health-expenditure-and-fi...

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Healthcare-spending-as-a...