I have been reading Kunstler's stuff for several years. He has a great way with words... he can make you chuckle while describing how totally screwed you are and how it's all going to get worse. Now that takes some skill with the pen!
His most recent piece has a healthcare vs GDP chart that I find interesting...
I'm seeing that it all changes in the late 60, early 70s, which coincidently are when the USA went off of the gold standard as well as enabled lobbyists to control our Congress (so-called Sunshine Act). Ignorance of game theory, bad assumptions, and ideological thinking lead to bad policy which results in almost completely rigged systems. Look at the current state of Venezuela and Argentina to see what this looks like. That's where we are now--or will be soon enough--and Kunstler is one of the best at laying it all out in an entertaining way. Tragicomedy may be our reward in the end.
http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/rain-dance/ (link for above chart and write up)
The following YouTube highlights one of the most under-reported and under-appreciated policy decisions ever--and I think it is at the heart of why the above chart takes off when it does. The author of this Vlog James D'Angelo feels so strongly about it that he stopped his really awesome Bitcoin Blackboard series to work on doing something about it full time. Good for him and good for us!
If this makes sense to you please reSteemit and follow these guys and share their work. Our civilization isn't going to reverse these trends if everybody is sleepwalking.