It’s incredibly simple. Complacency. Greed takes root, nobody cares enough, and greed takes further and further root. The US has constructed its society into one where it is entirely normalised for someone to see a homeless person, and say “they earned it”.

Healthcare–and, by extension, everything else–will only change, when the people work to make that change. Simple as. As of now, corporations make change instead. Perhaps, what’s transpiring proves a turning point, but I’m not willing to believe that yet.