ABSTRACT
Healthcare costs much more in any other country, yet many people lack access to medical services. Despite spending so much, we die much younger than people in many other countries. Much other reasoning demonstrates the limited impact of medical care on health. We conflate the terms “health” and “healthcare.” Treatments deemed effective a half-century ago have been found to not work and even harm. Our health after passing The Affordable Care Act languished and even worsened. Medical care, so considered, is one of the leading causes of death. Medical care treats a person's cells and organs rather than the individual. Public health efforts have been vastly defunded. COVID-19 sounded the death knell.
