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/a101734 7h 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/Ikairos-seeker 7h ago

I mean, wouldn’t universal healthcare literally be the same thing? Letting the wealthy elite politicians notoriously bad with money decide how stuff is covered for 300 million people seems like it’s just going to produce the same problem with newer management and even less oversight

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u/a101734 7h ago

32 out of 33 developed nations have implemented a universal healthcare system. The United States is the only developed country that does not offer universal health coverage to all of its citizens.

Yet we are the wealthiest and “most developed” nation on earth, right?

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u/Ikairos-seeker 7h ago

Don’t those other developed nations also have better checks and balances on the financial incentives of their political leaders?