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Question from a welfare country and complete ignorance: what exactly are the steps necessary to change this and why is it so difficult for the USA to take them?


You have to abolish the private healthcare system, which is hard because the people who make money off of it have bought the government.

> "160 million people like their private insurance," Biden said during the November Democratic presidential primary debate.

Democrats are hellbent on keeping the insurance system through any cost saving measure. Republicans haven't actually proposed any plans.

1. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/nov/21/joe-biden/...




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