re: Why can every other first world country have healthcare for all?

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Oh. Well yeah. I'm a disabled vet. I've already paid my debt in full. Call it a right. Call it a privilege. Call it whatever. Makes no difference to me.

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And your healthcare could be taken away at a whim. Probably wouldn’t even require congressional action. You want everyone in that situation. Those who view others healthcare as something to be envied will eventually be envious of yours and attempt to take it from you.

And thanks for your service.

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You need look no further than Ruth Bader Ginsburg to see what can happen if people are motivated to keep someone in good health. An 80 year old woman (hell probably older) who routinely at this point "beats cancer."

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And would’ve been allowed to die under any govt healthcare scheme

This thread is generally why I hate liberalism.

Just terrible arguments overall on a lot of topics before even getting into the hypocrisy.

I’ve lived in a country with universal healthcare. It’s not all what it’s cracked up to be. Hell, my father-in-law needs a knee replacement and has been on a waiting list for a fricking year and a half.

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I’ve lived in a country with universal healthcare. It’s not all what it’s cracked up to be. Hell, my father-in-law needs a knee replacement and has been on a waiting list for a fricking year and a half.

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Lived in the UK and Scotland for 4 years. If you have an accident and need a bone set or stitches it works fine. If you have something more serious that cannot be handled that day then be prepared to wait a long time.

Have family in Birmingham, England and they had a cancer scare and had to wait 8 months to get a biopsy result. How would anyone like to wait 8 months to find out if they had cancer?? IF they did, then that is 8 more more months that cancer had a chance to spread. Then there is another wait for treatment.

People have no idea what national healthcare is really like.

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I didn't choose to be born here

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You are however, free to gtfo

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one of them was to provide for the general welfare of the public.

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No.

The constitution states that for the general welfare of the public, a limited amount of enumerated powers are granted to the federal government.

You’ve been lied to

Medicare is already watered down from what it was 15 years ago. You want to throw in 10 of millions of more people that don't contribute money to fund it?

That would be a cluster if u actually needed to use it.

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First of all, it’s breaking the bank and the effectiveness of the health care systems across the globe. Many countries are trying to figure out how to allocate finite health care resources without going bankrupt, and they are mostly doing it with wait times, denial of services for a growing number of health conditions, and a multi-tiered system where the wealthy still pay for private insurance (not too unlike what we have in this country).

Secondly, the U.S. is financing the research and development of the cutting edge medicines and methods which the rest of the world gets at a huge discount.

Thirdly, the U.S. is providing military security for the free world, which allows other countries to spend their money on universal health care.

Lastly, the U.S. is going into massive debt. It’s spending money on a huge government and some significant amount is sent to other countries. The world seems to be relying on the good credit of the U.S. All of this spending must eventually be accounted for. The credit card bill is going to come in the mail eventually.

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Perfect answer nicely summarized above.

OP will either not read it or doesn’t have the mental capacity to understand it. Either way, OP will continue to support the ignorant march towards socialism despite all of its failures.

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I didn't choose to be born here.

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True, but you can certainly choose to leave. Go live in one of those places.