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If you live in the USA and wish your country had universal healthcare like the rest of the Western world, keep in mind that the American Medical Association is bitterly antagonistic to it.
Instead, the AMA has consistently advocated for a 'market-based' system in which health insurance is normative and government-funded healthcare is reserved for those below the poverty line.
The AMA has been fighting against universal healthcare since 1949, when President Truman proposed a 'national health insurance program.' It hired a consulting firm which coined the laughably inaccurate term 'socialised healthcare', a successful propaganda pitch still used today.
In 1961, the AMA hired Ronald Reagan for an advertisement opposing the introduction of Medicare, claiming this was 'a short step to all the rest of socialism.'
In Australia, it's very different.
spontaneous9
Yes, the American Medical Association made sure there'd be strict separations of coverage, as specified by their learned colleagues in the American Dental Association and the American Optometric Association, meaning we also enjoy the great benefit of buying additional insurance if, aside from our physical health, we'd also like to have special luxury items such as eyes, and teeth.