Impact of Wealth Gap on Health Care and Society Generally

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Has health care in the United States improved or gotten worse since 2007, the year when this movie came out?

In 2007: - Pre-existing conditions were frequently used by insurance companies to avoid paying high-priced medical claims.

- Some of the older generation doctors were still around; people who graduated med school prior to the big spike in prices in the mid 70s and importantly, from the era when general practitioners were trained in all disciplines, not trained to write referrals to specialists.

- No genetic tests and very few biologic-class treatments for anything, but everything else was basically the same as it is now.

2021:

- People born in 1995 are now old enough to be practicing medicine.

- Pre-existing conditions won't stop you from buying insurance, which is now twice the price of 14 years ago.

- Having insurance does not guarantee that your doctor isn't a quack.

- Only rich kids can afford college. A four-year degree costs $96,000 on the average and an M.D. costs at least $250,000, up to $400,000 in the Ivy Leagues. Rather than medical school being populated by the most competent, it is populated by rich kids.

- Americans have a lower life expectancy than ever.