This is good post. I suppose you're prepared for downvotes? ;-) >Somehow Europe, Canada, Japan, etc, all make health care work but we can't. The thing is, tha

This is good post. I suppose you're prepared for downvotes? ;-) >Somehow Europe, Canada, Japan, etc, all make health care work but we can't. The thing is, that's mostly accurate. Those places all have governments that still occasionally get out of bed in the morning and serve the interests of their citizens. America does not. Now, the reason it doesn't in the first place, is mostly due to the actions of the same sort of assholes who would oppose universal healthcare on ideological grounds. So it's rather chicken/egg to be sure, but the fact remains. As P.J. O'Rourke wrote in one of his more self-aware moments (when he was younger, basically), "Republicans insist that government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it". So on the one hand, universal health care is a good thing and Americans should have it. On the other hand, the US government is, at best, barely capable of pulling it off. You praise the ACA, but surely you realize what a piece of shit program it implements? Compared to, as above, Europe, Canada, Japan, et al? It's better than the regime that came before it, probably, but only just barely. It does little to address spiraling costs, for example, which is an enormous problem. If it's a first step, great. Time will tell.