There was a similar discussion on here regarding access to healthcare back in 2008 before Obama was elected President. I remember somebody saying that healthcare was a privilege not a right. And I was like:
. I think that many politicians in the States are "afraid" of consolidating a functional social security system (like Canada and many Western European countries) because they might be quickly labelled as:
Okay, may be not to THAT extreme (
) but it would mean that many powerful private insurance firms would lose multi-billion dollar profits.
