Are We Just Incapable of Universal Health Care?

Even after every other country in the industrialized world has adopted some form of Universal Health, even after four decades of Medicare covering 27% of the population, even after poll after poll shows health care cost at or near the top of the countries concerns, the chances of Universal Health being passed seem to be as far away as ever. At best we can hope for some indirect bank shot attempt to try and curb costs.

I don't blame anybody but for this situation except us, the American people. We just seem incapable of pulling this particular trigger.

The American people seem unusually immune to the arguments on this subject. It's really a mystery. The public by and large has accepted the dangers of climate change why is this so hard?

We're the only wealthy industrialized country that does not provide health care for all it's citizens. If we were the only country without IPODs there would be an uproar. But here we blissfully ignore the fact that all of our major trading partners have Universal Health Care. We cling to the notion that it's too expensive and will ruin us financially. So why hasn't it sunk China yet? Or Germany? Or Britain? Yet instead of heaping scorn on the financial doomsayers, we seem to reserve our bile for Michael Moore.

The costs of health care haven't just affected Mom and Pop but major companies. Back when GM was still breathing, it's main concern was how to manage the health care costs of it's employees. One official referred to it as "A health benefits management company that also makes cars." Sounds like it could have saved a lot off its bottom line if there was Universal Health Care in this country. But instead of getting behind the drive for Universal Health GM and its cheerleaders took yet another swipe at the unions. Fat lot of good that course of action did them.

No the answer has to be something inside us as a people. We just can't look at this particular issue and really see it clearly. We can't see other countries providing for their citizens with a fraction of our GDP. We can't see the thousands of dollars each individual would save or the millions it would save businesses big and small. We can't look at this debate and realize that it's ours. Not Clinton's. Not Obama's but ours. It's there if we really want it. But do we?