next time someone bashes ACA

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88. Canada got single payer one province at a time

The European countries didn't have much need for evidence before implementing their universal health reforms, they just had lots and lots of wounded due to world war 2.

Some examples of bigger reforms could be when congress started a program for screenings of breast and cervical cancer for low income women, and it was maddening for these women to find out they have this cancer but not afford the treatment. So those women demanded their representatives allocate funding for treatment too. And they got it.

There was a time when end stage renal disease was a death sentence. Until dialysis was invented, people died from renal disease. Yet since it was expensive and experimental, there was no way for people to get this treatment until our society collectively decided that medicare shall cover dialysis regardless of age. So now young people can get dialysis through Medicare instead of dying quickly the way conservatives would prefer.

Even with medicare itself, there was a time when many elderly just couldn't afford health care so our country implemented a program for our seniors to have universal single payer program funded through a special tax added to our payroll. No politician would dare to end medicare or social security because of the national support for these very socialist liberal programs.