My standard of living is fine, and my private healthcare is fine... as long as the government stays out of it.
It is not the role of government to provide healthcare. If people cannot afford healthcare, it is no different than not being able to afford satellite television. If you can't afford it, you don't get it. If you force government to provide it, then at least acknowledge that it is on the backs of other taxpayers.
Okay, fair enough -- you didn't respond to my bait with vitriol, and I really do respect that, especially here.
In that case, I'll ask you an honest question.
You say healthcare isn't the government's business. I assume you say that not out of some bizarre stringent anti-government healthcare ideology, but rather because you believe the government has no mandate for it, and thus shouldn't assume powers outside of its ambit. I'll leave by the side any ideology on either side -- we could both, I am sure, have a very interesting and very futile ideological debate about the government's duties.
Back to the idea that in your country the government doesn't have the peoples' mandate for healthcare. If that's the case, surely you can agree that there are some places where healthcare
has been placed under the control of the government -- like France, Britain, or indeed even New Hampshire to an extent. It then seems to me that the democratic process is what determines what powers the government has, and in many places, the citizens have democratically given the government the mandate to provide healthcare.
Here's the rub: It appears to me that your country, despite how you feel,
has given your government the mandate to provide healthcare, by electing someone running on a platform that includes government healthcare.
It then seems to me that, as this man, democratically elected and very open about his intention to bring government healthcare to the United States, has his mandate, he can and indeed MUST try to implement it.
Therefore, it seems to me that your country wants and is going to get government healthcare. Where is your issue with this?