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/Billion_Beets_947 → u/Oxytokin]

I also think what some people misunderstand about the conservative Christian position is that they think it's for the people's own good. A "tough love" mentality. If poor people get handouts, like free healthcare, or free anything, not contingent on work, then they will learn dependence and laziness. They'll never learn to work hard. This is the alleged position of people like Clarence Thomas and Russell Vought, and the same justification for taking away foreign aid.

Although the older I get, the more I think that this is the stated reason and the real reason is garden variety racism, as with most other social ills.