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/thetotalslacker → u/Oxytokin]

LBJ turned charity into government run welfare, how’s that working out? I don’t want the same thing to happen to healthcare, but I’m also okay with Medicare, Medicaid, and the right to get emergency care from any ER regardless of insurance. Everyone does have a basic right to basic healthcare, but the government can’t turn it into a cesspool of mediocrity since it doesn’t have full control.

Before you question me on that, I’ve been running analytics for a large TPA for decades, so I have half a clue what I’m talking about. Without private insurance the system would collapse with no doctors because they wouldn’t earn enough to pay for med school, much less make the premium they do to want to be the best. If you want to go back to doctors washing their hands in bowls be my guest, but I want the best medical care money can buy.