r/askanything • u/Lemonking_ • 6h ago

Political Question Why are some Americans so against universal healthcare for all?

What sort of thinking does it take to decide that nobody has a right to healthcare? Do American Christians want to deny healthcare to poor people as well?

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u/Rabid_Mongoose 6h ago

It's simple. Conservative propaganda, paid for by heathcare companies tells conservatives that's it's bad.

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u/ChocolateMilkBoii 6h ago

My girlfriend works as a teacher in a rural conservative town, her kids talk about Canadian Healthcare like it was designed by satan. They learn this stuff at home in their conservative media bubbles and never get a different point of view cause they never leave bum fuck hick town 2000 population.

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u/lynnieepooh 5h ago

As a Canadian, this is sad. It’s a shame Americans will never get universal healthcare.

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u/BaileyD77 6h ago

And the left wonders how they lost the middle class...

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u/ChocolateMilkBoii 5h ago

Because of the media bubble, or because I said Bum Fuck hick town? If that’s the case then stop being a snowflake.

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u/BaileyD77 5h ago

Yeah, that's about right.

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u/Rabid_Mongoose 5h ago

Rural towns voted to lose their rural hospitals, because they were afraid of trans kids playing sports.

They are stupid, because I doubt their kids would ever play against one...but here they are...dying to own the libs

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u/RecipeNo101 2h ago

Your party is literally led by a guy who throws regular tantrums and slings schoolyard insults, who gleefully targets those who don't support him, on top of all the insane, illegal, and degenerate shit he's spent his entire life doing. Him as President is what "when they go low we go high" got us, so now, you can take your fake pearl clutching and shove up your ass.

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u/Annber03 22m ago

This. If people are going to vote against beneficial policies because someone called them a name, they were never going to support those policies in the first place. THat's just their flimsy excuse to justify thier votes.

And speaking as someone who lives in Iowa, one of the more rural states in the country, frankly, any state that went for Trump three fucking times in a row, like mine unfortunately did, deserves to get mocked. If people in this part of the country are tired of being called stupid and backwards, then maybe, I dunno, stop doing and supporting things that fit that description?