As an elected official, your job is to serve your constituents in a manor that best serves their interests. This may or may not always be a popular decision, but no one said being a politician would be an easy job. This means that the Affordable Care Act was the wrong policy to pass. Politicians spent too much time doing politics and not enough time caring about the people of the United States. At no point did I hear politicians talking about how the Affordable Care Act didn't go far enough. I only ever heard about how its socialism and how it destroys capitalism. No one ever mentioned how actual universal health care has already been tested, it has already been proven successful, and it has already proven to raise overall health of a society. According to the World Health Organization, America is ranked 37th in the world in terms of overall health, all while spending the most money on health care per person. Guess what, more than a majority of the countries on this list have universal health care.
Our "representatives", Democratic or Republican, were elected to represent our interests in Congress. In a single paragraph, I have shown that neither party is doing this. The best argument I've heard against universal health care is monetary, but we already spend more on health care per person than any other country. Our representatives unfortunately care more about the interests of the people who pay for their campaign than about the people who actually elected them into office. Several articles claim that 94% of elections are won by the candidate who spent the most money, and while this statistic may be a bit of an overestimate, it is not far from the truth.
So who's fault is it that money rules our politics? It is no one's fault. This may not be the answer you were expecting, but there really is no one to blame. It truly is the system that is to blame, but this is a discussion that will be had at a later date.
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