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In reply to the discussion: My experience with Universal health Care [View all]Diclotican
(5,095 posts)heaven05
I have always been somewhat pondering about the unwillingness to make Universal Health Care a nr 1 priority in the US, even as US do have some of the best doctors and hospitals in the world - they still do not want, or dear to make it possible for everyone to have access to universal heath Care... I know even Eisenhower, for all his wisdom was afraid of that Universal Health Care could do with the US, when that topic was up on a president al level in the mid 1950s (I think it was in 1958) And after that, in the Shadow of the cold war, the whole idea of universal health care kind of drowned and was never resurfaced before President Barack Obama deiced it was time to do something with it.. Even as it was a very watered down program it is something at least better than nothing..
I am afraid you are right there - I doubt you wile se universal health care in the US anytime soon - maybe if something really change in the US.. Like if the american population finally wake up and understood how bad treated they have been by their own politicians over the last century alone... I'm pretty sure if enough americans understood - or experienced what universal health care can do for you - would rise up in anger and walk to washington DC in pure anger to let their leaders know what is expected from them....
But as you also say - many americans elect the same politicians again and again - and again even if it is against their own interest - and I have to say, the ignorance I sometimes experiences with americans wisting Norway is outright stunning to come across.... I am a naive man - who more than one time have get "burned" because I trust people to much - but lord - many americans is just - to put it mildly really stupid... Or ignorant about the world outside their own small world..
Diclotican