Extremely happy am I that you asked this question, because I am sure foreigners have found this contrast between the United States of America and virtually every other country in the world. To understand the rationale for this profound respect for the Founding Fathers, you need to understand the culture of America. America was born during a time of imperialistic tyranny from countries such as Great Britain and Spain and the absolute monarchies of France and other European nations. After America broke away from Great Britain, the majority of the Founding Fathers, aside from a select few such as Alexander Hamilton, found that the root cause for all this tyranny was essentially that the governments no longer represented the people. The governments no longer represented the people, because corruption was too considerable, and, because corruption was too considerable, government had to be limited or restricted in scope, so that the people can always keep a chain around the necks of the government. To prove that this mindset was that of the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, a central Founding Father, said this:
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first. "
Essentially, the Founding Fathers created America, so that they could minimize government and maximize liberty, under Thomas Jefferson's vision of the so-called, "Empire of Liberty." Therefore, the system of Constitutional Federalism was put into place, the Constitution being more powerful than a President, a Congress, or a Supreme Court would ever be, and, under the Constitution, the Federal Government, for the whole of America, can't just make any laws it wanted then and there, because the Founding Fathers feared that this would encourage corruption. Instead, the Founding Fathers designed a system that ensured that corruption would be minimized under the Constitution. Contrary to popular belief, this system is not reactionary in nature. The system only ensures that the government doesn't step over the boundaries set by the people without their fully knowledgeable consent -- so far so that the people would no longer be able to control the power and scope of the government. Universal health care would have been just fine for many of the people who oppose that legislation now, but we such People will never support that legislation now, because the current Administration did not follow protocol, the Constitution, nor the Rule of Law defined by the Founding Fathers. They defied the Constitution.
The Constitution states that, if the Federal Government wants to get into the business of things such as universal healthcare, they would have to make an Amendment into the Constitution. It's just that simple, but they wouldn't do it, because I am sure that it would offer up some bigger questions about the necessity of that universal healthcare. Why should the Federal Government have this power? Couldn't individual states have their own healthcare system? Didn't Hitler use his Federal healthcare system to inject eugenics into his population? Essentially, the Founding Fathers designed the Constitution, so that the US government couldn't make some 1,000-paged legislation that no one has read. It kept the US government in check, but, unfortunately, the US government isn't obeying the rules anymore. Now, I can understand why Canada, Germany, etc. wouldn't have such a focus on a concise, Constitutional, Supreme Law decided by their Father or Founding Fathers. It just shows the difference between the cultures between America and the other countries, and only history will show which system will last better under distress and in the good times.