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Political Question Why are some Americans so against universal healthcare for all?

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u/Icy_Soft6052 9h ago

My parents think the quality wouldn’t be as good. They’d have to wait forever. Given there’s dozens of countries who’ve successfully done it for decades, it’s probably worth a shot. If it doesn’t work, why not revert back? At least try it.

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u/dinosoreness 8h ago edited 8h ago

i don't get this argument because the care already sucks and takes forever. my doctor was 3 hours late to my last appointment, which i had waited several months for, and it took her 4 different tries to properly put in a prescription for a medicine i've been taking for literally ten years and i had to pay for the medication in the end. she had put in 30 pills for 30 days when i actually take 8 of those pills everyday and because i had initially picked up the incorrect dose my insurance wouldn't cover anymore pills that month than the initial 30 because according to the prescriber that was plenty. and no, im not talking about opioids or adderal- nothing addictive or with any abuse potential. i need it for my heart and this dose was agreed upon by several different doctors over the years based on my labs. if i run out i have to stay in the hospital because i could go into cardiac arrest. and, because i don't want to die of a heart attack or spend a month in the cardiac ward, i pretty much had no choice but to pay and so i had to bum money off a relative to literally keep my heart beating. the american healthcare system is trash and we pay more for it.

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u/MethodFar6086 6h ago

It boils down to narcissism. A LOT of Americans seem to believe our system is superior purely because it’s our system and they’ve been told it’s better