As with a lot of other things, the US is simply a child.
A child slowly learning what it is to be a country, a government, a society.
You can see it in many areas, especially in ones other, more mature countries and regions, hold as vital to the public good.
Health Care. Transportation. Communication. Environment. etc.
Just look at how the EU governs passenger rights. None of the utter SHIT that is ok in the US would fly.
Same with data privacy - look at the upcoming GDPR law and compare to what ISPs can do in the US. And look at the stick they attached to it - a fine of 4% of total, global revenue. Boy I hope Facebook and Google have their checkbooks ready.
The citizen comes first, never a corporation.
You can't skip a couple hundred or even a thousand years of development though. A society needs to learn its lessons, takes ages. That the US is fueled by immigrants from less developed nations does not make it easier, those lessons need to be re-learned all the time. Societal memory does not exist as it does in say, Germany.