Wow..that's crazy.
Now, not to get too political (don't worry, I'm not going to get into specific politicians/parties/political plans) , but given that most "first world" countries (like NZ, Australia, Canada, UK, Italy, France, the Nordic countries, etc) all have universal healthcare, and given the health/lack of financial burden of these countries, would it not be safe to say that America - especially disabled Americans and those with chronic health needs - would benefit from universal healthcare?
Because then - to my understanding - this would then mean that there would be more (equal) money/funding/more access to the services (that the waitlists are providing), therefore less burdens of families, etc. I mean, you said here that "The only way to have the list shortened, is for our state government to push millions into the health systems. This happened many, many years ago, and cleared the wait lists in many states. " So if the US had logical healthcare, or at least, not hyperinflated healthcare costs (yah, know, like the rest of the world) then there would be near-equal funding across the states? So then the waitlist problem would be a non-issue?
Please forgive me if I have some incorrect guesses, lol. I'm not really familiar with the US health system (or lack of!) and I am a kind of utopian/optimistic person...so I'm aware people could say this is unrealistic! I guess I'm just hopeful