The bailouts weren't really socialism unless you define socialism the same way online right wingers do (i.e., any government policy you couldn't find in 1776 ru

The bailouts weren't really socialism unless you define socialism the same way online right wingers do (i.e., any government policy you couldn't find in 1776 rural Virginia). There is no rational reason to assume universal healthcare is going to work here just because the bailouts did. Apples and oranges, really. A lot of the fear of universal healthcare in the USA is because the voters think people like the progressives in charge of SF will run the program into the ground. I personally am not opposed to universal healthcare paid by the government, but I'm pretty skeptical our current political leaders would device a system that actually works better than what we have.