Pre-existing conditions also continue to frame healthcare as 'insurance' against a bad thing happening to you, when it should just be a regular service like any other.

You don't need 'insurance' in order to get your vehicle serviced, but that is what the US does with healthcare.

The most it will ever cost me to go from “not having a working car” to “having a working car” is the cost of used car that will reliably get me from point A to point B.

I can’t say the same about health care