Americans are slow learners.

It'll take time. Maybe a decade or two or three. But we Americams will some day have Medicare for everyone. A single-payer government-run program. Really, we should have universal health care now. But conservative Americans think that sounds too much like socialism. Too Marxist. And it's been drilled into the heads of Americans for generations that socialism is bad. Yes, we tend to be brainwashed. And manipulated by the powerbrokers. For generations, we even believed that slavery was all right. Or that women shouldn't have the right to vote. Or that blacks should be denied civil rights. But eventually, we saw the light. And mended our ways. Yes, someday the same will go for universal health care. Just be patient. We Americans are slow learners. --Jim Broede