Why doesn’t the United States have universal health care as a right of citizenship?
Because there are too many powerful and monied people who don’t want it. It is also why Nixon and his cabal came up with the HMO scam and Reagan allowed hospitals to go from non-profit to for profit. Democrats, since Harry Truman, have been trying to get universal health care for our country. But the AMA and Blue Cross and others who make huge profits off of gaming the current system or denying health care while charging huge premiums pay off our representatives to once again DENY AMERICANS care. EDIT: Universal care is not any more socialist or communist than private insurance itself, this is just right wing propaganda to get people to vote against their own best interests. Insurance . A large group pays into a fund which is supposed to pay out when someone who is sick needs it. The only difference is insurance companies make money by denying care and not paying out. I would rather have the government tell me what care I can get rather than some insurance company clerk who is going of
