Help an outsider understand the right wing thought process in the US vis a vi health care?!? [View All]

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Here's the thing I don't get. It's not like the US holds the patent on right wing politics. Take a look at any number of other westernized democracies in Europe and elsewhere and despite what some may have you believe, you will still find a strong thriving right wing community. Italy, Austria and Australia come to mind off the top of my head. Here in Canada too. Yet nowhere will you find a westernized democracy accept the US where at least some form of universal health care isn't in place. Heck Australia has publicly funded education! And I can tell you Australia has lots of serious right wing xenophobic wing nuts. So why is the US so alone when it comes to social reforms? How has the right there managed to so successfully shoehorn what are ultimately issues of humanitarian right and wrong into the language of right and left? I can tell you the right wingers in other countries would like to learn those tricks! Last time I checked it didn't matter too much if you were rabidly liberal or rabidly conservative when your son, wife or father is dying of a preventable cause and everyone turns their back on you.