When the current health insurance system was created in the 1950’s, there was a very specific family structure in the United States where the man would work for

When the current health insurance system was created in the 1950’s, there was a very specific family structure in the United States where the man would work for a wage, and the woman would stay at home with the children. So if the health insurance was attached to the man’s job, then she was dependent on him for healthcare. So you have to understand that on the American right wing, the current health care system is seen as a lynchpin of the “American way of life”. Not only that but as many black people work the kinds of low wage jobs that don’t offer health care. If we created a public system for everyone, then taxes on white income and property would be used to pay for black people to have health care, something which in the United States is a hard sell. That’s why you will often see people holding signs saying something to the effect of “racial equality is communism”.