What’s keeping people from demanding it?
In the USA, there is little corruption officially; that’s only because bribery is legal. Billionaires, Corporations, Banks and even other nations like Saudi Arabia can “contribute” huge amounts of money without even revealing who they are.
Insurers, drug manufacturers and other interested parties “donate” many millions of dollars through these Super PACs and shell companies to keep things as they like them.
The voters are too busy juggling low-wage jobs to compete with the multi-generational wealth accumulators; on top of this, they pay more taxes in more ways than any other generation before.
Our representatives won’t bite the hand that feeds them willingly, and are legally protected to continue doing so.
People’s standard of living and life spans are shrinking as a result. See Citizens United, Super PACs, Panama Papers and Pandora Papers for more details.
There’s so much, unions squashed, down to 10% of workforce and those are mostly police and government ironically. Check out Patriot Act if you wonder why there’s so little organizing. The FED haha it never ends
Because the politicians who could allow it are bribed by health insurance lobbyists to not allow it. There’s a lot of money at stake for a relative few people, and they’ll do anything to not risk it.
- Because conservatives do not want tax dollars going to people in outgroups.
- Because most Americans lack an understanding of statistics. You cannot use the logic that it’s cheaper to pay on aggregate for services through tax dollars, nor that the evidence shows that the monetary losses of a socialistic system are less than the gain. They don’t understand.
Because people who have a job with benefits feel like they’ve worked their way up the chain to earn those benefits. People who work but don’t have benefits just don’t work hard enough. And let’s not even talk about those who don’t work.
We need to divorce healthcare from employment.
because that’s not profitable enough for capitalism and the oligarchs
Cause that’s “commumism.”
Ask the shareholders and 1%.
because they gotta spend a literal trillion a year to kill brown people worldwide instead.
It’s actually cheaper to do single payer healthcare, but because profit rules all the empire does this.
Seriously? Because that’s money flowing in the “wrong” direction, that is away from billionaires’ pockets.
This is literally all there is to it, along with indentured servitude by tying insurance to employment on top of it. This country’s fucked up healthcare system keeps the billionaires happy and the people stuck appeasing them.
I feel like we Marxists have explained why hundreds of times in dozens of ways already.
People can demand it, but that isn’t how we could ever get it. The privatized healthcare system makes too much money and the left in the US Empire is only recently beginning to recover from the Red Scare and systematic dismantling by the state in the 20th century.
Now that the Red Scare is largely over, the United States is being dismantled by a compromised president controlled by Russia in the 21st century.Born too early to see the US being dismantled by Russia, born too late to see the US being dismantled by Russia, born just in time to see the US being dismantled by Russia.I am ignorant of modern geopolitics. Have no pity for me. I will go learn.
Now that the Red Scare is largely over
It never ended and won’t be over until capitalism is dead. What do you think the bullshit about a “Uyghur genocide” was for?
House votes to denounce ‘horrors’ of socialism ahead of Mamdani-Trump meeting
I can see that I’m not as well-read on the state of affairs as everyone else, and also I just noticed that I’m on .ml.
My apologies. I’ll remove myself from this instance until I am less ignorant about the world I live in.
This isn’t true, though. Trump just isn’t quite as hawkish on Russia as many liberals would like, but if he was actually compromised he would be lifting sanctions and wouldn’t be attacking Russian allies like Iran and Venezuela.
It would take a lot of pressure off of people to grind themselves down for profits as well as demonstrate that a government can actually take care of people, two precedents the capitalist class absolutely refuses to set.
Because our sclerotic legislature and campaign finance systems ensure that every single function of “democratic” society is fully and totally captured by the interests of capital
Helps keep people enlisting when the only way they can have their basic needs met is to sign up with the evil empire.
The companies make too much money, and the same companies dictate policy to the government.
The USA is not a democracy.
