And this is conditioned thought, IMO. The government should never be used to do something that we can do for ourselves. The example you give is just another reason to distrust the government, not a reason to suddenly trust it. It was the government that created the environment that you distrust so much.Conditioned thought, in my opinion.
While you're talking about individuals, corporations control your nation.
And it is not without amazing irony, that they've done this through the very people and the very party that always talks about "individual freedom."
It is WE the people, not Me the people.
Most of the "solutions" for health care, for instance, are simply government subsidies to the same corporations you dislike. They don't fix the cost issues they simply give our money more indirectly, they attempt to hide the issue and call it a "solution". To say "they" used the "party of <insert whatever here>" to do it ignores that the other party just selects different corporations to subsidize and allow to control them.