100% agree here. Today the US goverment, I won't attempt to speak towards any other government, has way too much power and ability to collect inflammation in it's citizens. We've allowed the government to assume that powers but we could also take that power away. If the government owns the bank there's literally no way to do that.
Healthcare here is a whole other massively broken system. In general yes I think it's a fair generalization that we would prefer to pay extra to avoid large governments, historically at least since we've done a really poor job keeping our federal government small for the last 80 years. It makes sense given our country's history though, and personally I'd rather pay a little more to a corporation than save a few bucks at the expense of living under a much more powerful centralized authority.