Two reasons:
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Money
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A lack of dead CEOs.
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because half the voting population doesnt bother voting at all, for starters. a huge number of those that do vote are under the influence of severe money-driven propaganda telling them that 'thats socialsim, and thats evil. literally hitler'
It's called regulatory capture. The medical insurance companies own the medical insurance regulatory agencies. Fundamentally, it's corruption.
Because keeping it broken is extremely profitable.
dolla dolla bill.
It's worse than you think. We've been trying. The first Democratic administration to push for universal healthcare was Truman.
The citizens always have, but they have limited power.
The US has been an oligarchy for far longer than many people will admit.
Because it's working as intended. Shareholders are making bank. That's all that matters in the USA.
Because the average person doesn't understand insurance and believes all the lies the GoP is throwing at them about universal healthcare.
My favorite like is from people who say "I like my insurance." Oh. Really? Have you seen a specialist for anything recently? Then no. You haven't used your insurance.
Because the people who are profiting from it spend part of that money to protect their interest.
Because the media, often called the 4th estate here is long dead. For the better part of the last century it's increasingly been a corpse reanimated by the ownership class. And now the remaining rotted flesh is being scrapped and stretched over constructs of silicon and steel.
There's constantly little trickles leaking out. Showing that Americans aren't that divided. That we agree far more than we disagree. But that doesn't sell your attention span. Fascist media is always ready with someone powerless minority group to blame for our problems. Liberal media always there to tell us to be outraged and march against it. Pitting us against each other. Just so what recently happened doesn't happen. Where we can look at each other and collectively identify the oligarchs as the problem.
I'll add this: There are millions of Americans employed in the insurance and medical fields who are afraid they won't have a job under universal health care.
Upton Sinclair — 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'
It's less than 1% of the nation. And frankly, fuck them. If we add a point to unemployment by helping out the rest of America, so be it.
The nature of the problem intrinsically supports divide and conquer.
It's not a problem for you until it is, and once it is you have bigger problems
Because the health insurance industry is operating exactly as designed.
Capitalism.
The majority of the population have any to no weight in policy. Need to check the opinions of the 1%, who actually have the power to determine policy.
Our last update was almost 15 years ago, and the country has spent those years arguing if those were worth keeping. We almost rolled them all back during the last time Trump was in office.
It's not a problem, it's working as designed.
Because it's a problem for the people, but a profitable scheme for the ones running the "health care".
Well good thing they voted for Trump...
Nothing happens in the US without someone getting paid. Maybe we need to start a PAC?
The Americans for America PAC!
lol. Because “what’s good for business is good for the country.”
What problems? $$$
There is a see-saw. The more insurance covers, the more it costs. So there will either be a healthcare cost "problem" (when insurance covers not enough, we are here) or a health insurance cost "problem" (this is what it was like prior to the ACA, everything was covered but many couldn't afford it).
Getting everyone on insurance got rid of the people that would go to the hospital without it an eventual die in it. The hospitals would have to eat the costs and pass that on to everyone else. ACA use to have a lot of stuff that all health insurance HAD TO cover, but the GOP has been slowly eating away at that list.
It's not actually true that the more insurance covers, the more it costs. A lot of preventative and early diagnosing care actually saves money in the long run. This is the kind of situation where details matter a lot.
But actually, that alone should not form the basis of policy, because sometimes it's better to spend money dealing with problems while they're still small problems, because the point is to make people's lives better, not to have the cheapest possible system. That all being said, the only way to fix the US system is to throw it all out the window.
A lot of preventative and early diagnosing care actually saves money in the long run.
What things do you think the GOP are targeting to get rid of off of ACA coverage?
We need a single-payer, universal healthcare system like they have in every other developed country. It's the only way to control cost and make sure that everyone is covered.
Proof that there are, in fact, stupid questions