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I can't fathom how anyone is against free healthcare. CHILDREN have to go without healthcare FFS CHILDREN. How can anyone justify that?
The problem is there's a false scarcity. Healthcare is expensive for people in the US right now, so the idea of paying for someone else's healthcare via universal healthcare doesn't sound like a good thing, it sounds like taking the money you need for your healthcare to pay for someone else's.
It's NOT like that, but people have it in their heads that it is. And it's very hard to change a made up mind when there are people rallying against it to protect their own private interests.
That's how they justify it. They're fucking ghouls
Because to them, the fight against the Others is so profoundly tied to their core identity that they would choose a rapacious trillionaire or low rent pedophile mob boss to lead them despite OVERWHELMING evidence either would gladly see them dead for a nickel.
Anyone not of their inner circle (church, Trump worship, family of they accede to the previous conditions) are the enemy. And they don't deserve even basic human rights. Unless they're a zygote/fetus, in which case they get a pass until birth.
"We CaN'T aFfOrD iT! wE wIlL rUn OuT oF mOnEy!"
Every fucking time it's suggested. Every fucking time, you get some clown screaming about how it costs too much and it will bankrupt the country and how health care will go away if you try to federalize it.
And under this government? Maybe they're right. Maybe American business leadership would just rip the wires out of the walls anyways. Look at what UK politicians have done to the NHS, ffs.
It's very possible that Americans don't have access to health care because we are simply too greedy and cruel and stupid as a population to value it above carpet bombing the Global South.
Funny how there's always money to bomb schools, on the other hand...
Children can't work. So they shouldn't get any benefits actually.
"protect the children" mfs when children
Even within free market logic free healthcare just makes sense. It enables people to more comfortably quit their job to start a business or take any better job. It also allows people more freedom to choose medical professionals based on their merits rather than on who their insurer says they can use.
That's long term thinking you fool. How does that help my next quarter!? Think of my bonus!
It's also cheaper for everyone, and results in much better outcomes on average. It's truly win/win/win.
The only losers would be the insurance companies that would no longer exist. And fuck them.
The stupid thing is that even this isn't necessarily the case. Even in countries that have public healthcare, there are still private options for those who want "fancier" care. The true statement is that they would only be able to rip off the wealthy, instead of everyone in the country.
It doesn't make sense because it doesn't maximize the short term profits of a health care business.
No American capitalist wants this.
You can be hired. You can be fired. You can't go around quitting without your boss's permission.
The issue really seems to be old people. And where I live it's a whole lot easier for old people to vote.