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In reply to the discussion: Why are Americans so resistant to Universal Healthcare? [View all]Alice11111
(5,730 posts)59. Provocative, in a good way. Thx
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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 Like Paul Ryan admitted after the Ryancare bill was withdrawn...they have been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