That's 20% of the country that will be less well off if you "fix" healthcare in any meaningful way and the overwhelming majority of them will fight tooth and nail to prevent that from happening.
That is a hell of a minority to overcome when the issue is one of personal economics (i.e one everyone will experience directly, not some abstract social policy thing that people will ignore as long as their lives are good), dare I say basically impossible in a democracy.
(yes I know I'm assuming that the healthcare industry is a cross section of the country, no I don't care if that isn't 100% accurate)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/184968/us-health-expendi...
That's 20% of the country that will be less well off if you "fix" healthcare in any meaningful way and the overwhelming majority of them will fight tooth and nail to prevent that from happening.
That is a hell of a minority to overcome when the issue is one of personal economics (i.e one everyone will experience directly, not some abstract social policy thing that people will ignore as long as their lives are good), dare I say basically impossible in a democracy.
(yes I know I'm assuming that the healthcare industry is a cross section of the country, no I don't care if that isn't 100% accurate)