I am American, but live in another country that has universal healthcare!
I am of the opinion that universal healthcare would be impossible in the US, but not because of the size of the population.
It is because of the cultural values and mindset. (They are too far away from even grasping the concept.)
I know that it took me years to comprehend and even recognize the benefits of such a system, and how it works, despite all the concrete evidence in front of me, and my own experiences with it.
I was brainwashed to believe the care must be low quality and unreliable.
Even though I had horrible care in the US, with long waits for appointments or treatments, doctors that acted like they didn’t care, limitation in my ability to choose healthcare providers, and extremely high costs.
I found myself with the exact opposite here, and still stayed suspicious for a long time.
If it took me so long to acknowledge the reality, even while in the middle of it, how long would it take other people, even more pigheaded than I, to do so?
This deep programming is too well installed in a large part of that population, for them to even perceive the truth.
It’s like slaves who’ve been brought up taught their master is an all knowing God to be worshipped (in this metaphor, the private corporations….)
The very suggestion of challenging that is so troubling to their worldview, it feels threatening to their life- even if in reality, their life and survival is actually more threatened by their present master.
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