https://www.scmp.com/rss/324441/feed Chris Gay worked in Hong Kong from 1988-98 for the Far Eastern Economic Review, the Asian Wall Street Journal and other publications. He lives in New York. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Americans like to indulge the notion that we are exceptional, a conceit that understandably sends non-Americans up the wall. But we are indisputably exceptional in a way that must baffle the rest of the developed world: our failure – or refusal – to implement universal health care. Even Hong Kong, often and erroneously portrayed as a laboratory experiment in hands-off government, has what amounts to universal health care. The US has never had anything like universal coverage, yet even... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2094674/why-america-so-opposed-universal-health-care?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2094674/why-america-so-opposed-universal-health-care?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 May 2017 03:49:07 +0000