What blazzen said, and probably the biggest thing you Canadians forget is that your whole country is quite large with quite a lot of natural resources, with a population of only 34 million. To put that in perspective NYC is roughly 1/3 the population of your ENTIRE country. Thats why universal healthcare works decently well there, I'm not agianst the whole idea of healthcare for all in places like canada because its population makes it feasible.. With a country of 330 million, it simply will not work or have any real fiscal longevity. My generation is slowly realizing that social security and these other "entitlements" our parents had simply wont be around when we are at retirement age. The US is going to go broke before that if it stays on its current track.
Also, the ACA was passed in the dead of night without a single republican vote. The democrats rammed it through and Nancy Pelosi famously said "we need to pass the bill so you can see whats in it." Thats an admission of a bad sale of goods if you ask me.
Its ultimately not about healthcare, its about merging 1/6th of the economy with the government.
