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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: Why is America so opposed to universal health care?
gpt
In the US, people hear horror stories of 6-month waits to see a doctor, and the inability to get certain procedures done at all in some cases, and little or no choice in what type of care you receive.  Of course, lots of folks are already on Medicare and Medicaid in this country, so to be reflexively against what one might consider to be "socialized medicine" is kind of curious...