Makes you wonder how all those western democracies with socialised healthcare still manage to have a longer life expectancy than the US with all the executions for subversion.
In case you missed the context, the parent poster (who was not downvoted BTW) literally has "commie" in their username, and wants to blame everything on "Social Conservatism."
The problem with crony capitalism is the crony, not the capitalism. Socialized healthcare is not the panacea that some people seem to think. And the ACA in the US isn't really either - more the like the worst of both worlds.
Are we to assume you're an actual Linux distribution having reached sentience from your username, or can we assume it's just a moniker selected for some other reason?
I'm not a communist. Avatars haven't had to be literal since the 90's man, come on.
Does anyone actually think I'm a communist because of my username? Because even if you were a right-of-center libertarian, the root causes for America's failings on healthcare are a matter of the public voting record. It's not a communist opinion to blame this on social conservatives because social conservatives PROUDLY proclaim their disdain for "Obamacare" and any other form of medical socialism.
(Once again, I mean socialism in the Bernie Sanders, Denmark, Germany, Canada sort of way, not the Stalin sort of way.)
Social Conservatism is what causes medications to not be subsidized.
Social Conservatism is what keeps America the only developed nation without universal healthcare.