RE: https://mastodon.green/@christineburns/117614533577284460
“American self-belief relies so much on ignorance of how much better it is elsewhere.”
That is a pithy summary of USA’s core problem. In healthcare in particular, they simply don’t appreciate how much less expensive it is everywhere else in the world, and usually with better outcomes too.
Yesterday I watched a longish YouTube exploring the old Route 66 from Chicago down to the California coast. Lots of it is derelict now as Interstate 40 sucked the passing trade away. I didn’t realise how much the animated film ‘Cars’ was a documentary. It also reminded me that, even where communities have clung on and maintained the ribbon of amenities and attractions, rural America has such a third world feel. American self-belief relies so much on ignorance of how much better it is elsewhere.
