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Quote by: tengers  Not really, if you understand Americans. We have been wrestling with Health Care for at least 40 years and never seem to be able to do what other modern nations find simple. It has to do with our psyche and it is the primary obstacle, or reason that universal healthcare finds so much resistance in this country.We will allow it for the old or for some poverty class, but if you are perceived as able bodied, its "no soup for you", even if what we are doing is the most expensive system in the world. |
tenger, I'm not sure it's the American "psyche" that makes public health care so difficult to implement in the US. I'd put greater weight on the US electoral system, which requires that candidates for public office sell themselves to corporate interests to fund their election campaigns. Much of what takes place, perfectly legally, in the funding of elections in the US is illegal in most democracies. Essentially, Congress and most state legislatures are bought and paid for by the highest bidders. It's not surprising then that US health care policy is, for the most part, determined not by what best services the public, but by corporate interests and the maximization of profits at the expense of the patient.