That’s the meme, but I think it’s more that insurance companies spend fortunes to bribe lobby for politicians to vote against it, not to mention fortunes in propaganda to push the narrative that universal healthcare is more expensive.
As an outsider seeing the US from the internet, can I guess that you didnt get Medicare 4 All because people went :
“4 All? But like, not those people surely? Oh hell no. Thats just socialism.”
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
raze2012@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Universal healthcare is actually a bipartisan issue among the people. But as you expect, one side is really good at reframing terms to make it sound like It benefits the “non-deserving”. The main “issue” over the decades is that everytime they try to creep this into making all insurance worse they get pushback.
So, kinda.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
No, we didn’t get it because our politicians are partly owned by the insurance companies.
The majority of people want Medicare for all and even more if you explain it without including the name.
ViceroTempus@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
We nearly had a public option in the Affordable Care Act, but then Democrats watered down their proposal before it ever went to up for an actual vote thanks to Lieberman. Which of course ended up making it a huge boon to the insurance companies, resulting in our current state of affairs.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
The public option was never going to be in the final bill. It was there to be negotiated out for republican votes. When they refused to play ball, Lieberman had to play the part of the bad guy.
ViceroTempus@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Lol, they had a super majority at the time. They never needed the Republican votes.