Almost 1/3 of all Americans now have medical debt, as most medical insurance plans push more and more of the cost onto the patient.

European countries' medical systems have been getting worse, too. A French friend told me that the medical system there is much stingier now — but it still beats the US by a large margin, even though it costs less.

I suspect that is due to the fact that the US operates mostly in medical insurance run by private companies, and most of them are unscrupulously greedy.