Reply #55: It will because it leads to growth

[The2ndWheel]

Once the problems of aging populations kick in, the only way to keep the system going will be by universal care. When you have more and more people all the time, you don't need the universal stuff, because the population itself grows, allowing the system to grow. If the population is no longer growing though, then you need the universal programs, since you need more from each person because there are fewer of them. Each person can't prop up their choice of company. You won't have the companies without the government providing the foundation for society, so then everyone is put into the single payer/universal program in order to keep the infrastructure of government intact. Unless we start having more people, it's going to happen at some point.

Now, what do you do after the universal program begins its inevitable process of diminishing returns? The only thing you could do in order to keep the system going is to integrate more people, and that would mean merging countries like the US and Canada(pretty much what the EU is doing, because of their aging populations over there). The same way the universal health programs would work, by everyone, no matter who you are, paying into one program, that's why nation-state integration would have to occur at some point.

The US will get universal care, if we want to keep the country going a few more years.