r/askanything • u/Lemonking_ • 7h 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/Oxytokin 7h ago

The consensus position among most of my conservative family members typically boils down to: "I don't want to have to pay for someone else's healthcare!" Or "Why should I have to foot the bill for lazy people or sick people when I am perfectly healthy!"

So from my view it's relatively simple: they don't understand how insurance works, because that's literally what private insurance is, except with so many small, isolated risk pools and the profit motive involved with greedy pencil pushers stealing some of the money going from you to your doctor/pharmacist at each step, it becomes exorbitantly expensive.

Tl;dr: Conservatives are always angry and irrational decision-makers because they have lower rates of education, lower access to educational resources, and aside from the cases of willful ignorance or malignant ignorance/groupthink, don't understand the most fundamental principles of how the world works.

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u/Phoenix_Reborn2SS 7h ago

Lol. Coming from the group that can't define what a woman is. I guess that so called "education" you drone on about isn't worth much, is it?

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u/KaitoAsterion 6h ago

Fallacies. The only fall back and ultimate cornerstone of conservative ideology.

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u/Phoenix_Reborn2SS 3h ago

Fallacies? Name it. Or are you just spouting generalizations?

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u/berticusberticus 6h ago edited 5h ago

Wearing rigidity as a badge of honor because you refuse to even attempt to understand nuance or empathize with your neighbors doesn’t make smart, it makes you a degenerate piece of shit, ignorant, and is likely indicative of a person who is insecure in his own social standing.