were you not around for the obamacare debate? i was, and it was made perfectly clear that a majority in the house and senate + the presidency, all in theory working toward the same thing, couldn't really change anything.
without legal intervention, who's iterating and innovating process? and to what end?
If Canada could do it that way, why not US?
“In Canada waiting times have reached an all-time high, with a median delay of half a year between referral and treatment.”
I’ll pass, thanks.
Keep killing those kids
[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1240400/maternal-mortali...
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2....
Humanity is very bad about pre-emptively identifying risks and avoiding them - witness our response to global warming, both world wars, falls of empires, carcinogens, peak oil, the housing crisis, the health care crisis, and so on. Problem is that until a crisis is actually upon people, it's not urgent, which means that everybody has an incentive to focus their attention on things that actually are urgent. A fair number of people may not even agree that a crisis is imminent, or what to do about it, or they may have vested interests in the old system and resist any new change.
People have been manipulated into supporting these bad actors through media. Wanting affordable healthcare is "socialism". Single payer healthcare will kill your grandma with "death panels". The fact is that in most metrics socialised healthcare is fucking the absolute shit out of the US system, which somehow manages to kill twice as many pregnant women as Canada[0]. At this point the only thing that might change the minds of these people is to feel the consequences of their actions.
[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-pregnancy-idUSKCN0...