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10. all of the above :)

Our lifestyles are unhealthy
Our diets are unhealthy
We are immersed in toxins and pollution

Expectations are unrealistic. Most of the people in the ER are NOT emergencies. And it's not necessarily because they lack insurance. It's because they don't know the difference between a 24-hour stomach bug and serious illness, or because they don't understand the difference between an ER and a 24-hour walk-in clinic. It's so bad that some hospitals are starting to charge $100 up front for non-emergencies that show up in the ER, so people will make the choice to go to the walk-in clinic.

The profit model wastes resources
The fear wastes resources.
The nonprofit model is where I work. It still wastes resources.
Focus on acute care and management of chronic diseases instead of prevention wastes resources -- this is a big one when they look at US model versus other models.

Elder care wastes huge resources. Huge $$ spent to maintain very low quality of life. Dying 90 year olds being repeatedly transfused so they can hang on a few more days or weeks is insane.

This last is the most sensitive part. People need to grow up, enact living wills or something. We're born, we live and sooner or later we die. Deal with it.

And, if all that is not bad enough, sooner or later (and it's more likely to be sooner than not) the antibiotic magic bullet will be gone. That alone is going to change everything...and in a big way.