Reply #11: I Was Only...

[N4457S]

...a toddler in 1968 and don't remember anything before about 1970. Sorry.

Part of what's happened is that our country and the western world are much older today. People become less flexible and more conservative (generally speaking) as they age. That's just human nature.

Another part of this has to do with our national finances. Single payer won't happen for one big reason: we don't have the money. Social Security is solvent until 2040 but the Medicare problem looms ever larger and there's simply going to be no way out of that crisis without both a healthy tax increase and some sort of means testing.

That's why no one challenges the government anymore. They can't afford to. They can't take the risk.