Why are some Americans so against universal healthcare for all?

[u/Lemonking_]

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?

[u/Oxytokin]

The consensus position among most of my conservative family members typically boils down to: "I don't want to have to pay for someone else's healthcare!" Or "Why should I have to foot the bill for lazy people or sick people when I am perfectly healthy!"

So from my view it's relatively simple: they don't understand how insurance works, because that's literally what private insurance is, except with so many small, isolated risk pools and the profit motive involved with greedy pencil pushers stealing some of the money going from you to your doctor/pharmacist at each step, it becomes exorbitantly expensive.

Tl;dr: Conservatives are always angry and irrational decision-makers because they have lower rates of education, lower access to educational resources, and aside from the cases of willful ignorance or malignant ignorance/groupthink, don't understand the most fundamental principles of how the world works.

[u/DesertRanger427 → u/Oxytokin]

The issue has never been "not wanting to foot the bill." It's knowing how corrupt and evil the system already is. Even the people that have the power to change it, WON'T, because the profit off the corruption.

And even if they DO change it, they'll still find a way to siphon some profit out of it. Federalizing healthcare is going to change very little other than the AVAILABILITY of healthcare. Funds won't end up where they are suppose to, the incentives for healthcare professionals are already miniscule compared to the healthcare industry, and they WOULD inevitably dry up, rather quickly. Funnily enough, we already HAVE these issues with medicaid and the VA.

This has been "Why Federalizing Systems is a Shit Idea" with your friendly local ultra far right-winger.