> I think part of the problem in the US is that the current status is so bad, that everyone has a different proposed solution.
“Everyone has different solutions” as in the two parties, both corporatist through and through, are only willing to offer solutions that nip around the edges of the problem with ridiculously complex regulations that ultimately result in less competition and higher profits for healthcare conglomerates.
Single payer in the vein of “Medicare for All” is popular for voters of both parties. It’s just that our representatives represent us in name only.
> Single payer is also seen as too paternalistic by a large minority of the US, so there is that as well.
Again there’s a disconnect between the discourse you can see on corporate cable news and major newspapers and what people actually think and want.
That said, the corporate media and Dems/Rs have been very very successful in 50 years of messaging that everything the government does = bad, inefficient, rationing. And everything corporate = dynamic, efficient, desirable. Almost everything that can be privatized has been privatized via crony capitalism, but they can still say “govt has big budgets, shitty results” when it’s their privatization that is the exact reason for the decay.
It’s depressing how effective it all is.