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In reply to the discussion: Why are Americans so resistant to Universal Healthcare? [View all]Warpy
(111,266 posts)because it's going to be paid for elsewhere. That they aren't going to need the transplant doesn't dawn on them, the very idea that their premiums or taxes might go up to help somebody else get one is extremely galling to them.
They think people oughta pay for their own transplants, dammit, until they have a kid with a deformity who needs one and find out the cost is way out of reach of anybody whose name isn't Trump.
Try to explain the concept of insurance to them and they'll huff that it's Communism and should be outlawed.
They really are bizarre people stuck on I, ME, and MINE.
No one is going to convince a conservative that universal health care is a good thing. If we want to get it done, we'll simply have to steamroll right over them for their own damned good.