text: Conservatism is the single biggest obstacle to fixing our country's healthcare system, currently to most inefficient in the world. We know how to provide affordable healthcare to every citizen. Most every advanced country in the world has done it with some kind of variation of a single-payer system. But conservatives won't allow it because its "socialism". Never mind that its leaps and bounds better than our current private insurance dominated system, but according to the conservative single-payer is "socialism" so no way no how are we doing that.
  
  All this is further evidence of the abject failure of  modern conservatism; the inability of conservatives that once they latch onto something, nothing, not facts, not truth, not irrefutable evidence is ever going to change their thinking. Trickle down economic policy has never, ever worked anywhere in the world but conservatives still cling to it...just like they cling to the epic fail of our private-insurance based healthcare system.