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So the question is, is having better health care for the rich worth sacrificing the health care for everyone else?  Our politicians, who are very rich, say yes.

Forgive me if I am too bold, but a question arises in my mind. I am not an US citizen and I've just few friends in the US, so maybe what I'm writing here is total rubbish.

US are an advanced democracy that place a powerful weapon in the hands of their citizen: the vote. Your vote is quite "strong" if compared to the one in force in Italy. We, for example, vote for our MPs but we cannot vote directly for out President: that leaves some really important decision in the hands of the elected and, sometimes, their interests do not coincide tho the ones of the voters.
You can directly vote for your president and the short time between one election and another (4 years president, 2 years mid term and some other short term for the election of the senate's members, if I am not mistaken). That leaves me puzzled: if you don't really like it why vote for someones who likes it?

Powerful lobbies are operating all around the world, not only in the US, but I feel no one can be so powerful to influence the feelings of the voters in such an important and serious decision.

In so many words, I feel that if there is not a National Healt System in the US is because the citizen of US (overall) do not love it. Far from me to tell if that is a good policy or a bad one, just wanted to know if what I think is right or not.

We do not vote directly for the president exactly.. we vote through the electoral college system, so if your state is heavily dominated by one party or the other, your vote will end up meaning nothing.  Additionally, most campaigns for any reform is heavily funded against by interest groups determined to confuse you with skewed logic and outright lies/exaggerations.  Since people tend to be afraid of change, things don't change.

The U.S. has become too big to have a cohesive community.  It is incredibly fractured and huge,so it is very very difficult for things to change, which works perfectly into the politicians' hands.

My wife has 3 months worth of medical coverage after giving birth and then it goes up to $1000 a month for the 3 of us(including baby).  We still have copays and pay $10-30 per 30 days worth of prescriptions.  She is a teacher. 

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