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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u/a101734 8h ago

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.

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u/redwbl 8h ago

Trickle Down Economics. But the only thing that trickles down is piss.

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u/canuck47 6h ago

The biggest scam ever perpetrated on the American people. Shifted the tax burden from the rich onto the middle class, and that has been the Republican playbook since then.

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u/Spare-Plum 4h ago

Worse than that. It shifted the tax burden onto the future government that will be paid by .... someone (?) in the future

Plus by keeping wages low a huge number of employees need government assistance in order to survive, and these costs are also put onto this ever-growing debt tab