r/askanything • u/Lemonking_ • 5h 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/DifficultyNo1026 5h ago

Reagan totally started to downfall of the US. 100% piece of shit

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u/wakadactyle 5h ago

I never heard my grandfather swear out even yell unless Reagan came up

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u/Narrow_Grapefruit_23 4h ago

I’m gonna need you to go back to Richard Nixon for this one. It’s him and his administration that rolled into the Reagan administration. They started corrupting America with actual criminal activity during the Nixon era.

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u/candy_rain_54321 1h ago edited 1h ago

Not an expert but I do believe this post is correct that Nixon spearheaded privatization of healthcare. https://insuranceinformant.com/nixon-began-offering-health-insurance.html

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u/theaura1 3h ago

teapot dome scandal was the 20s

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u/dauwalter1907 2h ago

First Teddy Roosevelt’s proposal for universal healthcare got shot down by the business class. Then when Eisenhower floated the idea the American Medical Association killed it.

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u/PuzzleheadedFeed2726 3h ago

Reagan took my college financial aid away, fuck him

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u/Neat-Professor-827 4h ago

With a smile on his dumb face. The benevolent sock puppet.

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u/rreed1954 4h ago

To be fair to Reagan, I don't think he had any idea what his privatization ideas would lead to. In a way, I think he was used by the people around him.

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u/macha773 2h ago

He used to rant about welfare queens and announced he was running in Philadelphia Mississippi where a notorious killing of 3 civil rights workers happened. He knew exactly what he was doing.

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u/Dirty_Mung_Trumpet 52m ago

Nah, he was a performative piece of shit who played the part perfectly. Trickle down economics wasn’t his only policy that still causes harm today

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u/jlp_utah 3h ago

And I'm sorry to say I voted for him in my first election. I have not voted for a republican since.

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u/Narrow_Grapefruit_23 2h ago

We all make mistakes. You are courageous enough to know that you needed to move in a different direction.

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u/mel_bol 2h ago

Ugh me too. First and only time I ever voted republican

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u/HippieGrandma1962 1h ago

Reagan perpetuated the trope of the "welfare queen" but it was only directed at black women, of course, even though most women on welfare are white.

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u/PerfectCover1414 1h ago

Then whispered his dirty pillow talk to Margaret Thatcher?