Mastodawn

If an American president fixes the healthcare, they can win every other election right? So, why does any of them not fix it?

https://lemmy.org/post/4626913

If an American president fixes the healthcare, they can win every other election right? So, why does any of them not fix it? - Lemmy.org

I am Turkish and have been wondering about this for a while as a political science and international relations masters degree student. Obama served for 8 years and still many Americans are complaining about how bad their healthcare system is and insurance prices are so high etc etc. Then why doesn’t any of them fix it. Here in Turkey, our leading party the AKP fixed the healthcare system so nicely that a lot of people from other countries are coming here for plastic surgeries and other healthcare services and the AKP party, as much as I hate to say it, fixed the healthcare system and now they are serving for their 4th term in a row.

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rumschlumpel Mar 18

That president would be hated by big business, they could and would sink him. Also, half of the US is so far down the propaganda rabbithole that they either wouldn’t believe that it’s fixed or they would be convinced that it’s bad that it was “fixed” (e.g. the anti-vaccine people).

And finally, a US president is only legally allowed to have 2 terms (though Trump is definitely going for “dictator for life”), and it’s not really possible to completely overhaul a healthcare system in a way that people will notice positively in their daily lives in just 4 years; so by the time when even the people who were always voting for the other side would notice that healthcare is good now, there’s already a different person on the ballot.

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ExoticCherryPigeon

Really much better put then i could, this.