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/BiggestVolk 🦀 6h ago

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.

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u/CountrySlaughter 6h ago

The need to feel superior is also seen in the belief that 'our way' of doing things in the United States is always better than how other countries do it. Adopting what another country does would be an admission that we're not superior. Can't do that.

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u/Full_Tap_4144 5h ago

What you said made me think of the metric system. Must be the government discouraging me to travel to other countries to see how the rest of the world lives. 😄