Exactly, as I just mentioned in the post just below, our political system and traditions are very different. In other countries, including all of Europe, they always had strong central governments, be it kings, or dictators, or strong bureaucracies. Their rulers know how to run big national healthcare systems, and their populations know how to accept them, including their limitations.
America was founded on ideas of limited government - and on adversarial legal and political system. On checks and balances. As you say, our population may not be happy with strict collectivist solutions, and our politicians have no traditions - and no skills - how to run them and how to make them work without going bust in a hurry.
It seems like these differences are never mentioned in the myriad reports and accounts. The truth is, we didn't "sign up" for this -- the big government solution. We've grown into a morass of programs that IMO threaten the nation's existence. This could be the final straw, and while the law is unpopular, I don't think people even begin to comprehend how big a deal this next election is. |
