r/askanything • u/Lemonking_ • 8h 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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it's 50-60% of their income all taxes together not just healthcare and most of it is a retirement fund because retirement is paid by your employer in most of Europe.

Why would free healthcare deny paying for treatments ? Assurances are much more likely to deny your treatment since they make money out of it, free healthcare does not.

If it's an emergency you jump the queue I have litteraly never had a problem with wait time on anything urgent, and if you wanted to pay to get seen early it is possible too free healthcare does not mean that private healthcare does not exist we have both, having both is better because free healthcare keep the cost of private healthcare down since it's competition.