Absolutely. It works beautifully in Scandinavia, Switzerland, France, Germany, Japan and many other countries. Unhinged Capitalism has spectacularly failed, so has unhinged socialism/communism. A social market economy as is practiced in above countries has proven the most successful so far. The straw man's argument of the Right that benefiting the rich which in turn trickle down their blessings on the rest of the population is a grand lie, has never worked and will never work. Nor is the argument an honest one that less government and more self determination is better. Look at the early Americas, look at what happens each time you give people plenty of choices: They take their guns and bats, hit each other on the head to strike our their "competitors". What we need is a BIG government, lots of regulations, and hammer the head of those bad nails in to align with all the other nails. That is what works best.
Re, Obama at least he provided 23 million Americans with a path to health insurance. That is a massive number in a country of 350 or so million people. Has Trump benefited anyone in the middle class? None. Has he tackled the pharmaceutical industry that overcharges on every medication there is? Fact is that most pharmaceutical companies will do fantastically well even when you force them to slash their cost by 80-90 percent, a price reduction that would put the cost of health care about in the ballpark of international standards. What you currently have is a broken system that benefits only the rich that do not care whether a surgery costs 5,000 or 500,000. For them those numbers are toys, peanuts. For most other mortals those numbers make the difference between getting a surgery or dying. Universal heath care is the way to go as proven in unaccountably many countries.
