We vote not to do that by majority because the majority of us simply don't want to live in that type of system. I have health insurance through my employer which has worked fine for me for years. I don't make a lot of money. Under $50k as a matter of fact. My insurance used to work even better before Obamacare was passed.
I submit to a great extent, we have been sold a bill of goods, that this is the way it should be. Yet, like anything else our tax dollars are directed to, we could have much better healthcare for a greater number, and probably have the same longevity as most other developed countries. Living longer (if healthy) is a good thing. Such as Hong Kong, which became what it is as a primarily democratic capitalist country, along with attaining a life expectancy of 85.51 years, guaranteed healthcare. Or, consider Japan, ad democratic, decidedly capitalist country, life expectancy of 84.71 years, again with guaranteed universal healthcare. The lists of countries benefitting by choice toward universal healthcare for it's people goes on and on, right along the lines of life expectancy, not just for the rich, or people like you and I, that have chosen to
only work for businesses, corporations or the government. Obviously, the wealthy have no need to favor universal healthcare. They can and always will be able to afford excellent healthcare, but the wealthy, the corporations owned and run by the wealthy, are also the ones that have paid lobbyists in our legislative bodies and politics to convince congress, and people like you, that it is not necessary and that most people that simply cannot afford it, are somehow unworthy of it. We rank 55th in the entire world on longevity and the 9th highest infant mortality rate, yet somebody has convince people like yourself that we mistakenly have the best healthcare system in the world. Obviously, it just is not so. And, we do not even do it efficiently, as we spend about 30% to 80% more
per capita on healthcare, than any of the next 9 countries below us, yet we cannot match their outcome and benefit to their people, as all of 9 of them do have universal healthcare from the poorest to the richest.
The mindset is somewhat akin to education, as it it treated the same here. Important and beneficial to the financially secure, but not something to be extended to the masses, hence the move toward private school education, with it high tuitions, benefitting the exclusivity of those that can afford the benefit. Strangely, we rank 12th in the world on education, and all the countries above us educationally, also have universal healthcare and of course, have consistently higher longevity.
Countries are like families, in that what the people in leadership position prioritize and choose, affects health, longevity and success in life and in relation to the world, in this generation as well as generations to come. It is a matter of economics, and priorities.
So what do we presently prioritize? What are we #1 in the world in? Well, we do not have universal healthcare, but we do spend more on our military than the next 9 or 10 countries combined. So, there is that. We also have the highest incarceration rate of any country on earth. And, of course we have the highest number of Billionaires (902) of any other country, and actually twice that of any other single country on the planet, China coming in next at 450.
