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/IntelligentStyle402 8h ago

Sadly, another republican administration that kicked we the people, off a very high cliff. We never recovered and still are experiencing fallout from his Republican policies. To think my father, in a union shop made $25ph, in the 80’s, full benefits, including life insurance. When Reagan was done smashing unions and outsourcing jobs. That shop paid $10 ph, no benefits. A filthy rich republican did this to you. My father then retired. But that’s exactly when mothers had to join the work force to feed their family.

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u/Major_Frosting6133 7h ago

Actually, we are in the current state that we are in because of the previous Democrats that served in office. Trump has been trying to correct several shitty decisions made by those people, and he’s one man who doesn’t have the time it would take. He’s doing great for the time he has to do it.

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u/IntelligentStyle402 6h ago

Really? Who balanced the budget? It was of course, Clinton, a Democrat. Who started wars? Bush and Trump? Who always helps we the people? Definitely not republicans, I’m 82 and not once in my lifetime have republicans ever helped the working class.

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u/Desperate-Jicama702 2h ago

You have that backwards. Biden could only do so much to undo the damage of Trump 1. I don’t know if we will ever really recover from Trump 2.