Because they don’t travel much and their only experience of it is the incredibly badly run Veterans Administration, and they’ve been exposed to propaganda about socialism to the point where they are afraid every visit to the doctor will be like going the the DMV for a driver’s license.
Irishdan56
irishdan56
In order to pass universal public healthcare in the US, white people would have to be convinced that the care they get would be much better than the care provided to minorities. As in “Black people get public healthcare, too, but they get expired medicines, used bandages, and their hospital beds have plywood instead…
- Taxes would go way up to provide suitable coverage for most people
the democratic party is against universal healthcare because they suck and are cowards. the average democratic voter is against universal healthcare in general only because they know they can’t get it because the only big things that happen in government are terrible things, because the democratic party sucks and are…
Disinformation campaign by republicans. A frightening amount of voters think/thought that Obamacare was separate from the ACA and Medicaid.
It’s hard to believe now, but Canada’s health care system took a good chunk of the 20th century to spread from Saskatchewan to the national stage. There were riots over it IIRC. Why? Because using the powers of the government for the benefit of citizens was for dirty commies.
From most things I hear, even Americans who identify as Democrats, or left leaning in their politics are against public health care.
Another reason besides the anti-socialism propaganda that many have talked about is that the American health care system has already dug itself really far into a hole and that a sudden change to a single-payer system could have serious economic impacts. A lot of our economy is tied up in the bloat of the insurance…
I have a coworker who has said that it wouldn’t work because “doctors are already treated like cattle”............so yeah - really no good reason lol - just a lot of misinformation.
I believe the main reason is the left leaning politicians in America can not articulate their position well enough, and instead of focusing on a single issue and hammering it home they get pulled into any stupid debate the right comes up with (like bathroom laws or Transgenders in the military).
I mean, multiple conservative talking heads last night brought up Canada’s system as some kind of boogeyman we should be terrified of (apparently ya’ll love your system when you’re healthy, until you need healthcare, then you come running to the glorious free market system of the US of A. Who knew?!). It’s just a…
I certainly don’t. I’ve lived with the NHS for teh better part of a decade in Scotland and England.
It was wonderful. You have to wait? So what? If I want to see a doctor about my neck / back, I need to make an appointment, pay to see my regular doctor, plead for a referral, then make an appointment and wait another…
Most polls shows that a majority of Americans are in favor of universal healthcare. However, health insurance lobbyists have given both Dems and Republicans 100s of millions of dollars to not even bring up the possibility.
The United States is the only country in the world where “socialist” is a classist epithet. And if you support things like single-payer insurance, you’re an anti-American, socialist piece of shit. Apparently, having access to healthcare is an affront to the legions of right-wing windbags because it would be one less…
Canadian’s don’t use turn signals either. We’re awful drivers.
I wonder how much taxes would really need to go up. About 8-9% of my income goes to paying for healthcare now. Even if my income taxes were to increase 5% to cover the cost of universal health care, it seems like that would actually save me money in the long run.*
This is not about public health care, it is about health insurance - two very different things. There are huge lobbies that would hate to have federal health CARE, primarily the insurance companies. People forget that this is not about CARE, it is about INSURANCE.
polls here show most people are in favor of a single payer public system now.
Your description of “Americans” is very simplistic.