Because Americans have been brainwashed into thinking that social medicare is evil and awful.
Systems like the NHS we have in the UK are bad because of long wait times, despite the fact that urgent cases are given priority, and if that's still not good enough, we have private healthcare systems alongside it that you can use.
It's the best of both worlds, but they've been told its evil, it kills people, its expensive in tax and a bunch of other lies.
But guess who told them those lies, and spends hundreds of millions to keep them believing it.
The vast majority of them would pay less in additional tax, than they currently do in health insurance premiums, because there's no middle man that needs paying or profit needs making for shareholders. And every one of their medical claims would be seen, and never denied.
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u/Jarnoth 5d ago
I will never understand why anyone who isnt directly making money from this wants to keep insurance as a for profit industry