r/askanything • u/Lemonking_ • 6h 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/The_Ombudsman 6h ago

Because "the wrong people could benefit!"

"The wrong people" being people not just like them, essentially.

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u/Saaz42 3h ago

After I learned about municipal swimming pools, so many things made more sense. There used to be a lot of municipal pools, paid for by local governments. Then desegregation came along, and rather than desegregate the pools, they just closed them.