Scenarios about 'medical costs'
The financial burden associated with healthcare services, treatments, medications, and insurance premiums throughout history. Medical costs reflect economic disparities in healthcare access, evolving payment models, and the tension between profit-driven healthcare systems and public health needs. In alternate history scenarios, different approaches to healthcare financing can dramatically alter social structures, technological development, and population health outcomes.
What If Single-Payer Healthcare Was Adopted in The United States?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the United States implemented a national single-payer healthcare system, fundamentally transforming American society, economy, and politics.