alt Hacker News> The issue is that the people in Washington won’t make it a “votable” decision.
Sorry, that's ridiculous. Universal Health Care policies are an almost 100% partisan issue. I can literally count on one hand the number of federal lawmakers who cross party lines here.
The real problem is people like you refusing to vote for the people with the policy you want, as often as not as part of a bothsidesist stance designed to get more upvote in peer forums like HN.
The two party system may be flawed and unjust, sure. But people who want single payer are still democrats.
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> The real problem is people like you refusing to vote for the people with the policy you want, as often as not as part of a bothsidesist stance designed to get more upvote in peer forums like HN
That's a lot of words they didn't say. It is a true statement that Congress did not give the USA single-payer healthcare nor even a public option.
Nothing about that says anything about who voted for whom, where anyone even lives for that matter, or anything about political parties.
To say this is the fault of "people like you" is out of line.
I already have universal healthcare here in Canada. I just feel sorry for people living in the US who could have it too if it wasn’t for stupid political shenanigans and ideological stubbornness. Health should be a right, not a commodity sold by private corporations to those who can afford it.