Americans may claim that they support healthcare or education reform in the abstract, but they don't actually vote that way. Most people aren't willing to voluntarily pay higher taxes or cut other programs in order to actually implement those policies.
I'd like the government to give me all sorts of stuff for free as long as someone else is paying.
We're all already paying for it through health insurance companies, who are siphoning off huge profits.
Unless you're living off-grid the government already gives you mountains of "free" stuff paid for by taxes! It's an enormously long list of utilities and services that contains everything from fire departments to food safety. Mostly things that shouldn't be profit centers.
I'd like the government to give me all sorts of stuff for free as long as someone else is paying.