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> It also confuses the hell out of American liberals Only the ones who don't travel enough to understand how weird US culture is. > is impossible in principle
by _lqaf 5y ago
> It also confuses the hell out of American liberals
Only the ones who don't travel enough to understand how weird US culture is.
> is impossible in principle
Not in principle. I suspect it is impossible in the US without a significant cultural shift, somehow. A disturbing fraction of the country seems to consider the commonweal to be an old-fashioned concept or the domain of suckers.
- int_19h 5y agoI suspect nothing is possible in US on the federal level because of the lack of consensus. But e.g. the Canadian (single-payer!) system is bottom-up - it originated with the provinces and is still run mostly by them, with the feds getting into the game relatively late and focusing mostly on funding and interoperability of the provincial systems. In theory, any Canadian province can withdraw from that system and run its healthcare however it sees fit, including a fully private system - it's just that it's a political non-starter even in the most conservative ones. It's not clear to me why the same approach hasn't been tried more broadly in US, not even in deep blue states. All the focus is on the federal level, where it gets the most pushback, and where the party deadlock is the worst.