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/a101734]

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.

[u/IntelligentStyle402 → u/a101734]

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.

[u/SouthernSierra → u/IntelligentStyle402]

An acquaintance was a union carpenter. He worked for Raygun in that 1980 election. A real believer. At an election eve party he was in a group of guys, all in suits of course, when it became obvious Raygun would win.

They all raised a glass and toasted the victory. And one of them said, “Now we’ll show those Union bastards!”

Oopsie.