Voters still control the ballot box, and have rejected single payer propositions. When polled, they say they want healthcare reform, but hate every option when they are described to them.
Yeah. There's a lot of fear-based marketing aimed at getting people to reject single-payer. It seems effective.
A lot of our voting seems to suffer from the "but it won't happen to me" fallacy, whether that be about health care and medical debt, conditions in jails, climate change, social services, etc. with the irony being that it often happens to most people in the long run.
