This is what all my US citizen students finally understand after a year or two of studies outside USA and having to use those basic systems (like healthcare, outside USA):
people elsewhere are generally healthier
people elsewhere are quite often more highly educated, not to mention cultivated
people elsewhere can often get certain basic services cheaper, when there is not a bunch of hedge funds, big banks and monopolies fleecing them on that service, but those services are run as "utilities" with standard c. 10% markup and excellent output/cost ratio
In most developed countries (that are not communist/socialist or broke) you can still get basic care, even if you are broke yourself
= all of that has worked for 70+ years, continues to work for now and is likely to work as long as the American system. Not better, not worse, just different.
Gee, what a novel idea - more than one strategy can give useful results. The costs and benefits are just slightly differently distributed.
The biggest lie Americans are told is the notion of "american exceptionalism". Nothing exceptional about USA, except perhaps in military industrial complex spending, where it reigns supreme.
Still, USA is "good as it is" and many like it. Some like some other countries / systems. Funny that, people like different things.
This is what all my US citizen students finally understand after a year or two of studies outside USA and having to use those basic systems (like healthcare, outside USA):
Gee, what a novel idea - more than one strategy can give useful results. The costs and benefits are just slightly differently distributed.
The biggest lie Americans are told is the notion of "american exceptionalism". Nothing exceptional about USA, except perhaps in military industrial complex spending, where it reigns supreme.
Still, USA is "good as it is" and many like it. Some like some other countries / systems. Funny that, people like different things.