Are we still civilized when our healthcare systems function like this? The problems in American healthcare have been building for decades. High costs push people to skip needed care. Specialists rarely look at the whole person, so chronic conditions get managed by checking boxes and sending patients home. Insurance rules, short staffing, and medication errors are routine. COVID made some of the failures harder to ignore, but the underlying issues long predate the pandemic. We also noted Canada’s publicly funded system as context. Long waits and people dying while waiting for care show it is not meaningfully better than the problems in the US. Both approaches are failing the people who need them. Full episode: youtube.com/live/7QXG3KCcZSg