We shouldn’t call it a health care system. That’s an aspirational term that doesn’t match reality. We have a medical industry.

Like all industries, the goal is to return value to shareholders. If healthcare is provided as a side effect of profit maximization, that’s nice to have, but that’s not the purpose of the system.

For example, UnitedHealth is the number three company in the US by revenue. Only Apple and Amazon make more. Their entire business model is to collect money from people, then not give it back when they need health care.

The system isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as intended.