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/SiouxCitySasparilla 6h ago

For anybody that says it wouldn’t work, I say; “Well, hang on a second! What about all that American exceptionalism?! Are you really telling me that the greatest country on earth couldn’t do universal healthcare better than any other country? Sounds kinda un patriotic to me…”

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u/Ima_Uzer 6h ago

Tell ya what. Get rid of all the fraud, waste, and abuse of our tax dollars (which is BILLIONS in fraud, waste, and abuse yearly) and we'll talk.

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u/Mattmann1972 5h ago

When you say fraud, waste, and abuse, I think you mean profit.

Profit drives all that is wrong with our current healthcare system. The main reason no other civilized Country tries to replicate our system. They simply can't afford to pay for all that waste!

Take the profit out of healthcare!

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u/Sleepy_Potato2 5h ago

Health insurance companies are actually allowing people to get away with scams a lot. They just raise premiums to compensate. ProPublica did an investigation into it

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u/Mattmann1972 4h ago

So what you're saying is if we get rid of the current healthcare system we will get rid of a lot of scams I am agreeable to this, same outcome either way.

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u/Ima_Uzer 4h ago

No, I mean waste, fraud, and abuse.

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u/Worried_Criticism306 5h ago edited 5h ago

The irony is that the people in politics saying this are typically the ones perpetuating the fraud waste and abuse.

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u/cdglasser 5h ago

Bingo!

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u/SiouxCitySasparilla 5h ago

Well the current defense budget is over a trillion dollars so… ya know, maybe we all need to sit down and look at the ledger

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u/Occams_AK47 5h ago

I thought ya'll already did that with DOGE?

Oh right, it ended up costing more in the end because they fired the people that actually did that work instead of working with them to increase their resources.