Neoliberalism yields Wealthcare, not healthcare

Since the 1970s when the neoliberal economy began to take hold, the cost of healthcare has continually risen. Placing profit at the center of healthcare, private equity firms began to purchase large sectors of U.S. health care to milk large profits. As costs have soared, U.S. health outcomes have precipitously declined.

Yale history professor Timothy Snyder has related his near-death experience while seeking U.S. healthcare in 2019.  Snyder writes in his book "Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary" that U.S. commodification of human health prioritizes profiteering over provision of health care or prevention of disease, resulting in 'wealthcare over healthcare.' Reducing U.S. healthcare to a privilege instead of a human right tends to undermine democracy as well as health.

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