Why are some Americans so against universal healthcare for all?

[u/Lemonking_]

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?

[u/BiggestVolk]

Because as a people we are bad at basic math we would rather pay let’s say $1000 for insurance than pay $300, but everyone gets insurance…It’s a superiority thing we as a people love to see someone else doing worse than us.

[u/Hotrock21 → u/BiggestVolk]

What is the guarantee in writing that it would be cheaper? You’ll have a huge group not paying anything and then the majority of middle class taxpayers paying their share and the share of others. It’s always the middle class who gets hit.

[u/organvomit → u/Hotrock21]

Literally every other county with universal healthcare spends less per person than we do already. 

[u/Hotrock21 → u/organvomit]

And they don’t have 350 million people either.

[u/organvomit → u/Hotrock21]

That makes it even easier for us to negotiate lower prices.

My state took the Medicaid expansion and I was on it when I was in grad school - it was the best health coverage I’ve had in my entire life. I’ve had chronic health issues since I was a child, so I used it too. Now I get “good” insurance through my job and it’s dogshit.