> Why is that an okay situation to be in?
Because the cost to not be in it is enormous.
Because the cost to not be in it is enormous.
[1] https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/sta...
Enormous compared to the value provided.
> We spend 3.2 trillion a year on Medicare
No, we don't. As your own source says, it is only $646 billion on Medicare, and $3.2 trillion a year in total combined public and private healthcare expenditures.
> Imagine if just 1K per person per year (300B) was spent on infrastructure every year to make mass evacuations over a few days possible.
Then it still probably wouldn't be enough, and we'd get a lot more value for nearly doubling infrastructure spending [0] if we spent it on something else.
[0] $416 billion/year in 2014, https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52463