A hot-button issue that contributed to the UK decision to leave the EU was the notion that outsiders (defined broadly) would get access to social services. Simi

A hot-button issue that contributed to the UK decision to leave the EU was the notion that outsiders (defined broadly) would get access to social services. Similar concerns are playing across other EU countries & Australia. Immigrants getting access to social services is a contentious issue in many countries. In the United States, there are large ethnic groups that have not been full citizens for all that long. (The millennials are the first American generation to have all its members born as full citizens.) As a result, a very significant proportion of the US is seen (by a large minority) as not fully American, or not "real" Americans. The US is ~27% nonwhite, with demographic trends pointing toward a much browner populace in future decades. The US basically has the same tussle over outsiders getting social services, only a large part of our citizens are considered outsiders by the political process. Much of the messaging against universal healthcare is racist and disgusting; unfortunately it is effective.