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Originally Posted by barbara
I'm more optimistic than that. I think that, at some point, we will wise up and model our health care after successful models used in other countries.
I believe that most of those voters wanted a single payer system in the first place and would support it.
I don't know that it will happen in my lifetime...... But sooner or later we have to get to that point. (Just my opinion)
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I'm not that optimistic barbara. Yes...I'm encouraged by the cultural shift that has caused the GOP to lose 5 of the last 6 presidential popular votes. However, I still believe that even though the young people of this country are more tolerant of other nationalities and ethnicities, more tolerant of women's reproductive rights, more tolerant of gay rights and same-sex marriage rights...this is still a country that has totally abandoned any acceptance of the kind of collectivist philosophy that would cause the majority of us to put the welfare of others on an equal level as our self-interest.
We just don't do it.
The fact that Europe has had the kind of health care that it has for over 4 decades and we still have a majority of the population that doesn't give a shit in Albert Schweitzer's hat for the 30 million uninsured and the 45,000 dying needlessly every year for the lack of insurance. And I believe we don't have it because politicians may be many things...but they know their craft. So they know that supporting it would likely put their office at high risk. Something in the nature of Americans has to change...and change big before there will be real universal health care in this country.
So we do agree that it probably won't happen in our lifetimes.