Originally Posted by TheDoc

In the U.S. Media, news, papers, radio, ect.. Universal healthcare is pushed as a major danger to Americans. They pitch the idea of total gov takeover backed by a monsterous tax increase.

The American Voting population has a job, pays bills, has kids, and has health care. So pushing a huge tax increase health care plan on something they already over pay for isn't going to be very easy.

And much of the medical community doesn't support it either, way to much money to be lost if the Gov took control. They lobby the Gov, tell the people it's bad, making it even harder to get going.

At that, the US really doesn't need Universal Health Care, it simply needs laws to force medical costs to match what other countries pay and force insurance companies to insure the sick/old - whatever. We have a fine system, it just has some broken parts.