Republicans certainly do expect women to "know their place". They refuse to support the ERA. They allow employers to take birth control out of employee health care plans, and they're trying to close down Planned Parenthood. They oppose equal pay and every women's rights bill ever proposed. Women are fleeing the Republican Party in droves.
Universal health care is a right, and Republican opposition has far more to do with wanting employers to have a measure of control over employees. One only need to look at the record of successive Republican administration since Reagan who have preached "small government", but expanded the size and reach of the federal government at every turn, and that includes Donald Trump.
The ONLY time government has shrunk is under Clinton and Obama. So Republicans really can't honestly use the excuse they don't want to expand government.
In fact, universal health care will SHRINK government, because all of those people who do the income and means testing for Medicare and Medicaid would be redundant since everyone has government funded health care so there's no need for applications, means testing, pre-approvals, and all the other expensive administration that takes 1/3 of every dollar that Americans spend on health care. Our administration costs - 7% and some countries are much lower than that.
You already have a government that forces and imposes it's will on the people. In our case, if the government forgets who they're working for, we don't re-elect them. We destroy their party. Progressive Conservative Brian Mulroney inflicted NAFTA and the Goods and Services Tax on us, and in return, we wiped out the Progressive Conservative Party in the next election. They lost offical party status, free office space, and ultimately were absorbed by the Reform Party of Canada.
We did the same thing to the Liberals after a financial scandal in Quebec. The party had to wander for 8 years in the wilderness, and re-invent itself, in order to take back power. Harper mishandled the Recession and he got soundly whipped for it. Harper wanted to repeal the Canada Health Act, but he knew his party would be ended if he tried.
Americans keep voting for financial mismanagement and politicians who put corporations and the wealthy first. Government of the elite, for the wealthy, and to hell with the people.
Trump's deregulation is degrading the air you breathe and the water you drink, according to his own administration, and yet you support this folly. Here's a clue: Republicans cut taxes and ran up the deficit twice. 6 years later, they faced massive unemployment and a stock market crash.
Now, for the third time, you've cut taxes and ballooned the deficit. What makes you think the third time is the charm? What's different this time, aside from the fact that both the working class and the middle class have lost most of their wealth to tax cuts for millionaires, and really cannot withstand another major economic crisis?
My bet is you cannot provide a creditable source for your claim.
