Because the average American is mind-blowingly stupid (by design, mind you: the GOP’s consistent push to underfund education and put people like Betsy DeVos in charge is not an accident).

Also Canadian. When I heard one of the GOP congressman go on about why prenatal care was included in ACA plans, because he doesn’t need it, I just thought “who are these selfish creeps who hate their moms that much?” And for the record, he needed prenatal care at least once.

decades of propaganda and an increasing lack of education.

Most elected officials won’t go on the record supporting it, but most (or at least a large proportion) of civilians on the left support it. The average American probably has been fed so many lies about how it works, though, that they are against it because they think it will double there tax bill and mean they’d have…

It’s because conservatives have been so effective in convincing Americans than public health care is for Communists.