Not enough caretakers. Plenty of billers.™

Carved from a waiting-room chair, foot swollen, no doctor yet: American health care is fully staffed for billing and skeleton-staffed for care. The hands that heal are rationed; the apparatus that invoices never misses a beat — the bill is never short-staffed. A system optimized to capture the charge, not deliver the cure — the human in the chair becomes a line item before they become a patient. The fix: fund the caretakers, not the invoice — staff the comfort the way we staff the collections. Only a human can care, and a budget that funds the billing while it rations the caring has decided the caring is the optional part. It isn’t. The full page → Ties: MAHA, SilverSneakers for All, A Phone Is a Witness. (His coin.)