[trinovantes]

Same reason why universal health care is controversial: "I don't use as much as them, why should I pay for their use?"

[superchroma]

In healthcare it's different, as, conceptually, at least, it's in all of our interests to be healthy, and being less healthy usually isn't just a comfort matter; discomfort in the health sphere usually signals greater health problems in the future.

[Yeahsureok]

Universal healthcare isn't controversial outside of the US.

Who by the way spend far more per person than any other developed country on healthcare, that's both government and consumer spending.

[geoduck14]

Well, we have had the Obama care for a couple of years now - so we're good