If our healthcare system is the greatest in the world...

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5. Our healthcare system.

We have some of the best doctors, great facilities, and cutting edge research. The problem is that much of it is designed as "for profit" and while people cannot be denied service in the emergency rooms, they are billed and bankrupted often so that unless, and even if you have insurance, you are not going to go regularly. We also have HUGE gaps in medical care, especially in rural areas.

Conservatives argue that people from around the world come to the US to get treatment. Yes, if they can afford it. But the best healthcare is worthless if you cannot access it regularly.

It is bullshit American Exceptionalism mythology to say that "America has the best healthcare in the world". We have that potential but our stupid profit based economic mentality keeps us from actually achieving that.