Canada

Tbf as much as I hate cons, when the liberals or ndp take power, they rarely reinstate the cuts.

Recently I've had issues with my back that requires physio, plantar fasciitis which requires a foot doctor, medication for anxiety, and a skin condition that requires a dermatologist.

None of my issues are covered by Ohip. Not physio to heal me, not a podiatrist to fix my feet, not the meds, not the dermatologist.

It's like what do I even pay taxes for at this point if nothing is covered. How is it better or cheaper for the government that I go on disability and take welfare, instead of them just paying for my healthcare so I can do my job?

There absolutely is. Parties encourage people to treat elections like a sport and identify with a "side." Corporate media play along with the horse race paradigm, rather than pushing back on this kind of framing that distracts from actual issues. (And heavens forbid we talk about conflicts of interest, especially when they cross party lines and are endemic to entire governments-- ruling and opposition parties alike.)

It's been increasingly normalized for vast swathes of the voting public to pay little to no attention what each party stands for now, and what they've done in the past. Media also fails to give fair attention to a variety of methods by which a given crisis could be tackled, since the interests of the corporate world tend not to be in line with the interest of the public.

It was the provincial liberals who started making things way worst in Quebec. Not that voting for different neo-cons would yield different results.

Mind you John-James Charest used to be an actual "Progressive Conservative".