I am Turkish and have been wondering about this for a while as a political science and international relations masters degree student. Obama served for 8 years and still many Americans are complaining about how bad their healthcare system is and insurance prices are so high etc etc. Then why doesn’t any of them fix it. Here in Turkey, our leading party the AKP fixed the healthcare system so nicely that a lot of people from other countries are coming here for plastic surgeries and other healthcare services and the AKP party, as much as I hate to say it, fixed the healthcare system and now they are serving for their 4th term in a row.
In the US, healthcare costs are double-dipping - you pay a lot when you’re healthy, and you also pay extra when you get treatment. But considering how absurdly expensive US healthcare is when you’re not sick, even the regular costs would probably be cheaper if the system was properly fixed.