>The US is one of only a few countries without maternity leave. That is at best misleading - see Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. The EU passed similar le

>The US is one of only a few countries without maternity leave. That is at best misleading - see Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. The EU passed similar legislation in the same year. Plenty of EU nations have passed stricter laws and so have plenty of US states. > I am American and spent nearly six years homeless and got to see the dark underbelly and how very hard we intentionally make it for people when something goes wrong. I am sorry you went through that but things aren't all roses outside of the states. People get pushed aside and fall through the cracks in every country. A bad experience doesn't change the overall facts here though. >Our employer-based insurance has all kinds of problems associated with it. Agreed - problems that are being actively debated and worked on. They can't be fixed overnight but they can and will be overcome in time. I too have spent quite a bit of time in the US. If I recall it was only in the past year or two that the majority of Americans said they would support Universal healthcare. Americans have different values and those values are shifting, many would say towards more compassionate stances which is probably good. Different values from you or I doesn't mean bad though.