No major American political party (okay, there are only two of them) will even entertain the obvious solution that everyone else has settled on, albeit via a va

No major American political party (okay, there are only two of them) will even entertain the obvious solution that everyone else has settled on, albeit via a variety of paths. Say what you want about reasonable people disagreeing with each other; the absence of any institutional support for universal health care is a big red flag that your system is broken.