$3,800,000,000,000 or $3.8 TRILLION was the amout spent for healthcare in 2019. It is projected that in this year, 2020, the rise in healthcare expeditures will be 5.7%, which will take healthcare expenditures over $4 TRILLION. The issue is not securing affordable healthcare, the issue is making the population healthier! As I have stated for years, no nation can have an affordable healthcare system in which the majority of the population is unhealthy and has carte blanc discretion to destroy itself.
The U.S. is a nation of gluttons, people addicted to everything from caffiene to meth, drug users and abusers, alcoholics, and smokers. Moreover, the U.S. is a nation where the majority of the population eats unhealthy food (cancer laden meats, excess sugar) as a norm and indulges in an unhealthy lifestyle, one that is void of exercise.
Americans eat a corporate diet, one dictated by corporations, not by natural science. The food supply is controlled by 10 large corporations and only four companies control 80% of the meat that is produced. Americans consumed 24,651,900,000 or just under 25 BILLION pounds of sugar in 2017. This leads to the biggest healthcare crises on the horizon - diabesity. Diabesity is obesity combined with diabetes which is part of the metabolic syndrome, a health condition that leads to heart attacks and strokes.
Another issue facing our country is unhealthy children. With the advent of mandatory vaccines will come increases in autoimmunes diseases, asthma, mental disorders, cancers due to the the viruses in the DNA of the various species used to make the vaccine, and a host of other maladies we cannot predict.
We must focus on prevention of disease to save money which will allow for treatment and payment of congenital and pre-existing conditions, rather than attempt to maintain the status quo and risk the ruination of our healthcare system.
