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It's because of "American Exceptionalism." Single payer health care was not invented in America, therefore it could not possibly work in America. Education is s
by rdouble 13y ago
It's because of "American Exceptionalism." Single payer health care was not invented in America, therefore it could not possibly work in America. Education is similar. There are always at least 20 countries ranked ahead of the USA in primary and secondary education. Yet none of the successful approaches used in those countries can even be experimented with in the USA, because they "would never work here." Things are just different here, you see.
Knowing this, if one really wanted to implement single payer care in America, it would be more likely to succeed if the program was marketed as something like "Super Patriot America Care, just like our boys get in the US Military!" rather than calling it single payer care, which is some Euro/Canada not-invented-here thing that can't possibly ever work, because of America.
- moocowduckquack 13y agoFreedom at the point of delivery.
- vidarh 13y agoThe funny thing is that the "father" of socialized welfare is Bismark, and the German system is largely private, and that too works far better. It doesn't have to be single payer: Pretty much every model that has set out with the requirement of providing universal coverage, in a country with enough money to fund it decently, has ended up better.