Comment by fatbird
21 days ago
The elephant in the room is that in every other sphere, scale is the solution, not the problem. The US should find it easier to implement UHC just because of its scale. More tax dollars, more average outcomes, more resources for outliers, more incremental money for research into rarer conditions. That 10x smaller countries like Canada do it effectively is an indictment of America's inability to do it.
America doesn’t do it for political and cultural reasons. It has absolutely nothing to do with scale, economics, or America’s “inability” to do it. Americans (unfortunately imo) have consistently chosen not to do it by not electing politicians who have pledged to do it.
Let’s face it, America can’t do it for corruption reasons.
The current healthcare system is working perfectly (and by that I mean lucratively) for the 0.01% in control of the political system.