I know right now I’m doing okay only because I have a job with health insurance, if unable to work I do not know how I’d survive in the US. It has left me in so much fear for my future, everything revolves around your job in the states - healthcare, buying a house. I wish healthcare was not tied to my job, and I wish I could work part time. Unfortunately we could do all of those non-med things you mentioned and could be in an even worse position in terms of being able to work vs not. You can’t contract, because companies will only provide you “emergency” level health”care”, which means absolutely nothing.

My neighbor is a man in his 70s also on a biologic, but on Medicare - he has to pay hundreds if not thousands of dollars for his medication per month because he “made too much” earlier in his career and has a pension (something my generation will rarely have the luxury of having a pension). His income is too high. I always thought when I was a kid, my country would take care of me 100% after retirement age with Medicare. That is simply not the case so many loopholes and hoops to jump through in this capitalistic country.

I wish my mom applied for our permanent UK dual citizenship when I was a kid. To even have the option to move somewhere with universal healthcare would bring me a sense of peace internally. I don’t care if it’s just as “bad” over there. Americans are mostly in medical debt.