you are dealing with different governments and political processes, different attitudes of the people, etc. Canadians may well be happy with their system, but that does mean Americans would be happy with the same or similar system
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. |
