Nixon's closing of the gold window in 1971 extended a lifestyle for 50 years that Americans were not able to afford. After Reagan was elected, the financialization of America's fake healthcare system began. The fake helathcare system is comprised of the sickcare system that relies on shareholder profits in the name of medical capitalism. Countries with financialized sickcare systems cannot handle pandemics well. Take a look at what has happened in the UK with the NHS. It started out as a socialist universal healthcare system after WWII, but became vulnerable to the same financialization as the USA after Thatcher became prime minister. Canada had the same system as the UK which only became recently financialized following the 2008 financial crisis. For example, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan imposed austerity measures related to healthcare beginning in 2010 and this partly resulted in the election of Trumplike premiers in those provinces betwen 2017 and 2019.