what makes senators hate something that is pro the people? wouldn't that give them better ratings? I come from a dictatorship so sorry if this is a dumb question
The short of it is that you can get anyone you want in office, to do anything you want even if it directly opposes their constituency, as long as you spend enough money on them to get them in office, buy their vote, and keep their PR afloat.
Gilens and Page (2014) found that "average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence" on American government policy: https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=e4797592-9d73-4f2b-...
Worth noting that this paper saw pushback for many years after the fact but measurably, its conclusion has been true since its release.
The answer was already given: it was politically infeasible to pass a single payer variant in the US. And it’s not clear it would have been good even if it had been feasible.
Could you say a bit more about the politics? this is very fascinating idk much about insurance or politics
This may be super simplistic but Europe, if you look at it at a high level, is as diverse as US states if not more because a lot of places have multi party systems instead of a two party system with comparable diverse interest groups and comparable GDP etc
What did they figure out to have insurance that the US can't? Or doesn't want to?
Not sure how I can say it more clearly. Most European countries have a functioning political system where it is easy (or at least possible) to pass necessary laws. The US doesn’t.