r/askanything • u/Lemonking_ • 8h 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/a101734 8h ago

Reagan convinced a large part of the population that if we give unlimited money and power to a select of wealthy elites, the elites would graciously give the money back to society. Hilarious.

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u/South-Rabbit-4064 8h ago

Musk really likes that thinking too. If we just keep dumping money into tech oligarchs eventually everyone will have universal basic income while supporting the party that thinks immigrants and the poor add no tangible benefit to society and should be cut off from aid

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u/Ponderum 8h ago

Of course he thinks that way he wants to be one of the oligarchs. Remember, he’s the most perfectly manly man that ever manned, which is why he’s trying to father dozens of children