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Bingo. "months of waiting and very hit-or-miss doctors" is my average experience in the US. The financial aspect is a lightning rod because the setup is so patently absurd (fake prices and nobody knows anything until afterwards!), it's easily documented (phone pic of a fraudulent bill), there's more bandwidth to post online when you're merely dealing with the billing hell, and of course in the true American spirit there are a bunch of entrenched interests looking to make a lot of money from taking the abstract desire for change and using it to push concrete policies that enrich themselves. But the actual care being provided is its own hell well before. The individual workers in the system do snap to attention when things get real, but those times are basically the exceptions that prove the rule.