Government is not congress, or a president. It is civil servants beavering away.
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> Government is not congress, or a president. It is civil servants beavering away.
The civil servants work on what Congress and the President set as priorities. They cannot execute plans that span multiple Congresses and Presidential administrations unless every single Congress and Administration over that time period agrees to support the plan.
They flew to the moon.
They built a horrifying arsenal.
I really do not see why they cannot build a health system. They have done so here.
> They flew to the moon.
Yes, because three successive Presidential administrations and six successive Congresses supported it.
More precisely, two successive administrations and about four successive Congresses supported it. The third administration began to back off, as did the fifth Congress; then the sixth Congress, along with the administration, stopped supporting it--and the moon missions stopped. Despite the fact that a large number of civil servants were making cogent arguments for why they should continue.
> They built a horrifying arsenal.
Yes, because every President and every Congress since 1945 has supported it.
Healthcare is a much larger proportion of the economy than NASA ever was. And if you're trying to put up the US military as an exemplar of US government efficiency and competence, no thank you.