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If you believe voting changes how government operates, you haven't been paying attention.

The powers are entrenched and voting does little to change anything in government anymore.

We don't have a free market health care system anyway, it's a hodgepodge of regulation and absurdity today. Making it single payer would simplify that situation, but claiming it would add dignity to the process is just uninformed.

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If you actual compare the data and spout outdated and trite political philosophies, healthcare systems that have significant government involvement tend to be more effective and offer a better quality of care for the money spent than free market solutions. Policies should be made based on data and facts, not sure political philosophy coined years before any of these issues became apparent.

> If you believe voting changes how government operates, you haven't been paying attention. The powers are entrenched and voting does little to change anything in government anymore.

I agree with you there in the context of the US. What desperately needs changing is campaign finance. Lobbying, Citizens United, etc has completely ruined politics in the US.

What needs changing is term limits. One should not be able to spend 40 years in Congress or the Senate.

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