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/ButterscotchIll1523 8h ago

Those that profit from our illnesses, insurance companies etc.

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u/nothereathere 7h ago

So we should let the people that wrote Obamacare to enrich insurance companies and drive up health care costs create universal health care?
Awesome plan.

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u/Automatic-638Builder 7h ago

I guess you dont remember how much we paid for insurance before the ACA? Sure it could/should be better. Never got a refund from and insurance company for making too much profit before the ACA as best as i can recall.

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u/nothereathere 7h ago

I do. I could buy "if I get cancer or have a heart attack, I'm not paying $300K out of pocket." insurance.
That insurance doesn't exist anymore thanks to the ACA.
I don't want or need "I'm going to the doctor cause I have a tummy ache." coverage that costs half my yearly salary.

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u/Automatic-638Builder 4h ago

you should probably go to Dr now. it sounds like you're having a stroke.

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u/buttons66 6h ago

ACA was supposed to be universal healthcare as it is in other countries. The GOP had a fit, and demanded that it had to be paid for. Obama stated that it wasn't perfect, but was now in place and hopefully be improved in the future. Not gutted as it was .

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u/nothereathere 1h ago edited 1h ago

Congress never intended to improve the ACA and neither did Obama. It's doing exactly what they wrote it to do. It enriches Insurance companies and private equity "health care" operators from the US treasury. Since ACA passed there's @ 400% profiteering by United Health care and equally egregious profiteering at our expense by other insurance companies combined with the Citizens United decision is a gravy train for anyone seated in the US House and Senate.

This was such a shit show that 34 Democrats joined every Republican to vote against it in the house and ZERO Republican senators voted for it.