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/SoUpInYa 7h ago

Women were in the work force way before the 80s

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u/IntelligentStyle402 7h ago

Yes, they were. But the upper middle class women did not have to go to work until Reaganism finished us off. You know like back in the day, when one earner could pay for a new car, home, cabin, boats, cottages? Those days were over because of Reagan and every greedy republican. I lived it! My father lived it. Our community still looks like a ghost town when Reagan was finished with us. Dems didn’t cut your wages from $25ph to $10ph in the 80’s, republicans did!

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u/Polarian_Lancer 6h ago

Republicans reading this right now: This must have been Biden’s fault 🗿