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In reply to the discussion: Why are Americans so resistant to Universal Healthcare? [View all]Bozvotros
(785 posts)30. Because just about everything they "know" is a lie, half truth or irrelevancy.
We don't even recognize how ridiculously inadequate Medicare is. We need to have part A, B, C, D? Plus your choice of 50 supplements to fill in the holes? Like seniors need to approach choosing healthcare like it was part lottery and part Chinese food menu? And that doesn't even touch end of life custodial care needs. If your misfortune is to need close supervision and assistance with basic physical care because you have an incurable debilitating condition we can't consider that health care. Sorry.
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True. ...and they are too afraid of the truth to investigate the facts. It challenges their values.
Alice11111
Mar 2017
#62
The magic word is taxes. So many people have become convinced that paying taxes
Arkansas Granny
Mar 2017
#5
They think it IS fun! Like Paul Ryan admitted after the Ryancare bill was withdrawn...they have been
Alice11111
Mar 2017
#60
It's not just using your taxes to pay for a little boy to get a heart transplant
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Mar 2017
#10
Distrust of the throne and parliament was neither the catalyst nor the reason.
LanternWaste
Mar 2017
#97
Three reasons: (1) propaganda works, and they are relentlessness propagandized with the most
tblue37
Mar 2017
#14
Because it levels the playing field, treating all, including the elite equally....
Historic NY
Mar 2017
#16
Because ultimately, the right-wing faction believes some people deserve to die.
Tatiana
Mar 2017
#24
Because just about everything they "know" is a lie, half truth or irrelevancy.
Bozvotros
Mar 2017
#30
Plan F is a Medicare Supplement,which many people can't afford, when paying for Plan D and Rxs
Alice11111
Mar 2017
#72
Good points. It is like a sick game to figure out. Then, it's got cha, you got the wrong one.
Alice11111
Mar 2017
#71
The selling point is that you are human and that it is fair for everyone to have the same
HoneyBadger
Mar 2017
#81
Yeah, I think this is much bigger than some of the pop-sociology reasons that have been offered.
cemaphonic
Mar 2017
#80
It's because they don't want to subsidize the expenses of the costliest patients
Calculating
Mar 2017
#40
That's a classic masturbatory myth that is deliberately promoted by greedy pyschopaths
Azathoth
Mar 2017
#68
Because if they get it, people they dislike and resent might get it, too. Can't have that. n/t
Different Drummer
Mar 2017
#46
It's because we delusionally self-mythologize our country and supposed 'exceptionalism'
TransitJohn
Mar 2017
#47
A very good question. I know there are right-wingers who are against it when in fact
raccoon
Mar 2017
#89
For sure! This time go in for the kill. Done with making nice, while the Iagos do us in.
Alice11111
Mar 2017
#73
The ones I know do see it that way...fear of the people who couldnt get in the Titanic life boats.
Alice11111
Mar 2017
#69
You have a point -- "Medicare for all" is probably an easier sale to white wingers than "univeral
Hoyt
Mar 2017
#86
Too many Americans refuse to support anything that might help another person.
LonePirate
Mar 2017
#95