Why doesn’t the United States have universal health care as a right of citizenship?

Because there are too many powerful and monied people who don't want it. It is also why Nixon and his cabal came up with the HMO scam and Reagan allowed hospitals to go from non-profit to for profit.

Democrats, since Harry Truman, have been trying to get universal health care for our country. But the AMA and Blue Cross and others who make huge profits off of gaming the current system or denying health care while charging huge premiums pay off our representatives to once again DENY AMERICANS care.

EDIT: Universal care is not any more socialist or communist than private insurance itself, this is just right wing propaganda to get people to vote against their own best interests. Insurance . A large group pays into a fund which is supposed to pay out when someone who is sick needs it. The only difference is insurance companies make money by denying care and not paying out. I would rather have the government tell me what care I can get rather than some insurance company clerk who is going off guidelines for gaining the most profit rather than me getting the best healthcare.

Because people are getting rich with the private health care system. It's just profits over people. About 8% more die in private hospital care than die in public health care. I always thought that the government was of the people and for the people. That is before John Kennedy twisted things around with his speech about not looking for what your country could do for you but what you could do for your country. (paraphrase not a quote)

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It is not in our Constitution. The Founding Fathers did not give the Federal Government the power to come up with a universal health care system. Now that said if the individual states wanted to come with a state health care system then that would be ok at least under the US Constitution via the 10th Amendment but even the states have state constitutions.

Edit- I know it is in the Preamble. That said the Peamble states why we formed the Constitution not what the Constitution says. That is in the articles and in the Amendments. You would have had a much better argument by stating in Article 1 section 8 the Congress has the duty to promote the general welfare of the United States.

I you go to those 28 industrialized nations and do poll on how many malpractice lawsuits you have per hospital, doctors, etc. you find that it is minimal thus medical services are greatly less expensive because medical institutions don't have to charge up the wazoo to cover for high insurance fees, time in court, etc. The legal system has not only the medical, but the technical markets cornered. If by some miracle you are able to lower the legal costs of hospitals you may in the end offer something like this. Those other countries also pay very high taxes leaving the people with less than half of their salaries.

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Because the current system makes old rich white people a lot of money. That means they are the most influential lobbyists in Congress. They also have a lot of money to brainwash the idiots in this country whom don't understand how universal healthcare works......

Why should your peers or government pay for you as you poison your body in a large variety of ways. You are responsible for your own health. No one forces fat people to eat unhealthy and fattening food. To think otherwise if well just insane.

Because we have a constitution that gaurantees the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It doesn't say anything about health care.

We resist universal health care because of the amount of personal liberty you end up having to forfeit. This gives the government way too much control over your life.

Also, talk to anyone from the 28 countries that you're talking about and see what they think of their health care.

It's interesting the the PM of Italy recently flew to New York to have a surgical procedure done because it was not covered under their universal health care.

Switzerland doesn't have universal health care. Though heath insurance is required if you live there. If somebody can't afford it the government helps them get cheaper coverage.

I don't want the government controlling my health care. I have the right to see whichever doctor I choose and when. Universal health care does not give those freedoms. No thank you!!!