> I have heard the US is a democracy. It is certainly not a direct democracy where each individual policy is resolved by separate independent voting, no. > So

> I have heard the US is a democracy. It is certainly not a direct democracy where each individual policy is resolved by separate independent voting, no. > So then insurance-based healthcare is what American people truly want? Pretty consistently, no, but there is not any single alternative that a majority of the American people prefer recently (for a while, as far back as the 1990s, there was a clear popular majority for universal single-payer), and more importantly, it is not the only issue that factors into people’s voting decisions.