American Healthcare as the Evil Monster in the UK

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We live in a curious world. GOP politicians use the Canadian and French healthcare systems as the evil monsters that we must avoid at all costs. They argue that we need to privatize Medicare or make our system more consumer directed (which means a system of price rationing). In the UK conservative politicians are forced to declare that they do not plan to turn their system of socialized medicine into the American system of healthcare which is the evil monster to UK citizens. The electorate in the UK seems to understand what is in their best interest. The majority of Americans have a poor understanding of what is in their best interest. They live in a world populated by evil monsters that conservatives have implanted into their imagination. Their world is also dominated by a media culture that maintains their ignorance of how things work in the rest of the world, or outside of their experience. They are immersed in the consumption of everyday reality which deadens the imagination.