Comment by kelnos

That depends on who "you" is. Quite a few people in Congress are ok with doing that, but not anywhere near enough to get anything passed. Look at the GOP side of the aisle and you'll essentially find no one willing to do that. Not to mention they are just simply ideologically opposed to the concept of government-provided universal health care.

And that, is the difficulty. Sure, I agree that it wouldn't be too logistically difficult to implement universal healthcare in the US. But that doesn't matter when more than half the country has been propaganda'd into not even wanting it in the first place.

Hell, I expect that there are a ton of Medicaid and Medicare recipients in the US who would tell you that they think government-provided, single-payer healthcare is a bad idea, when that's essentially what they have, to some degree.