Desperate? Sick? That’s Because You’re Supposed To Be

Several theories could be advanced as to why the United States is the only nation in the developed world that doesn’t offer its citizens government-sponsored healthcare.

By far the most obvious is that a population of healthy and happy people who are not desperately living on the brink of impoverishment is not conducive to the process of turning millionaires into billionaires.  Wealth beyond the imagination is the main force that motivates American society.

This, of course, transfers itself directly into lawmaking.  Congress is elected almost exclusively on the basis of donations from the uber-rich.  Do you think these people could possible give a damn that our citizens–even our war veterans–are living in the streets or in their cars, dying of treatable diseases?

Providing universal healthcare would have another consequence that may be even more unacceptable, i.e., the epiphany that government isn’t the enemy of the people.  Once there exists the idea that we can all be a part of something that is compassionate and organized, the dog-eat-dog, stressed out environment so necessary for maintaining grindingly horrific working conditions begins to recede.

Bad news for the billionaire class.