re: People who are against a universal healthcare system, why?

More than one reason.

If I’m made responsible for paying for part of everybody else’s care, my costs will be higher and there’s no way around that. I’ll be paying for people with rare diseases, people who have bad chronic habits and chronic diseases, hypochondriacs who are constantly seeking medical help, etc, etc, etc

When government gets involved in health care, quality of care and efficiency of the system suffer, every time. Every.time.

I don’t want crappy, slow, expensive health care, any more than it’s already been made so.

The Constitution doesn’t provide authority to the federal government to supply health care plans, or retirement plans, or affordable mortgages, or bailouts for businesses. There are specific responsibilities assigned to the federal government, with anything outside of those left to the states.

universal? you mean in the whole world?

because why would we stop at our borders?

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Not taking any side just curious

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By placing the burden of persuasion on people who think that government is horrible at such things, especially in a large heterogeneous nation, you are indeed taking a side.

Services are always rationed.

UHC = waiting lists and stifling innovation and worse service. And probably much more expensive.

So what's not to love!!!

because nothing in life is fricking free. Nothing.

Why don't you use your normal name to ask?

Not taking any sides just asking

Do we want to fundamentally transform this nation-state, the USA, into something other than which it was founded? Without even voting on any Constitutional Amendment that would work as the lawful engine of that transformation?

If so, then, Universal Healthcare For All paid for by the US Federal Government is the fastest way to make this happen.

THAT is why the movement towards this is so very strong.

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will eventually succeed.

-the government is a large highly bureaucratic and inefficient system, to think they will take trillions of dollars in money and create a good system of healthcare, that our livelihoods depend on, without being inefficient and wasteful like it already seems to be, is the highest form of idiocy.


Also, it's just another method of giving the government more power of your life as they will begin legislating more with respect to every day health issues such as taxing sodas, taxing sugars, taxing anything they deem "unhealthy ".

In the UK they actually have laws that restrict how much pizza people can order...insane and stupid, or what? They actually take millions of taxpayer dollars, sit around, and come up with stupid laws about how much pizza people eat.


And lastly, which is by far the most important thing about universal healthcare....WE CANT AFFORD IT.


Its wealth redistribution at its finest. The poor are typically the most unhealthy...why? They smoke the most, they eat the worst, they have the worst health habits of any demographic. They arent always born unhealthy, they mostly just behave unhealthy.

Can't afford it. I already get nauseated writing checks for my quarterly taxes. I sure as shite don't want to pay medical bills for some fat a-hole that smokes 2 packs a day and gorges himself with mcdonald's at every opportunity. Most of Americans' health problems can be attributed to modifiable risk factors that people refuse to modify.