As I see it the parts of government overreach and intrusiveness that bother you are directly the result of corporate capture of our governing bodies and institutions.
Profits do not have a conscience.
Perpetual growth, expansion, and exploitation is the philosophy of a cancer cell, not a civilization. Individuals become relegated to mere resources whose entire existence is defined by the "value" which can be extracted from them.
It's inhuman. Literally.
We've decided money should be the dominant form of life on this planet despite the fact that it isn't even alive.
Regardless of the makeup of our government though, having tens of thousands die every year because a lack of basic health care and more being financially decimated because of medical debt is worse than whatever corruption would exist in a universal health care system run by the thieves and liars who now hold power.
Uncoupling access to health services from employment is, in my view, actually necessary to reforming our government. That would take away one of the biggest sticks our corporate-captured government uses to bludgeon us into conformity.
That ...not cost or complexity... is why they continue denying us health care as a right instead of a privilege.
They need that stick and the threat of using it to keep us divided and afraid and apathetic.
For them it's a question of maintaining power; for us it's a question of survival and dignity.
I'd love almost nothing more than seeing that stick taken away and shoved right up their arses.
