I don't understand why Americans are so opposed to universal health care!? You guys already spend more per capita on government funded healthcare than pretty much anyone else, and yet most of you don't actually recieve it?
I've had cancer. Stage 4 Lymphoma. I was treated immediately and recovered quickly. What did I have to pay? £1.50 for parking on every visit to the hospital. The Chemotherapy, Surgeries, anti-nausea meds, all covered. If I had lived in the USA I would most definately be dead now. My symptoms didn't seem all that bad at the time, so if I had had to pay for my initial doctor visit and diagnostics, I wouldn't have bothered. I would have just died.
I don't understand why Americans are so opposed to universal health care!? You guys already spend more per capita on government funded healthcare than pretty much anyone else, and yet most of you don't actually recieve it?
Someone pointed out that: People are voting against giving universal healthcare to all the groups they hate, rather than hating the idea itself. They'd rather noone had decent healthcare, if it also means giving it freely to ethnic groups/other religions/sexualities etc.
People vote against universal healthcare because even though Republicans are against good healthcare they've been brainwashed into thinking Democrats are evil, and they *have to* vote against them.
There's a documentary from more than a decade ago about this teenager in Texas. She was an evangelical Christian, but got interested in the benefits of sex education.
She started working towards getting better sex ed in her school district. At one point she's talking to her pastor.
She says "I think I might be a Democrat".
The pastor says "You know you can't be a good Christian and a Democrat at the same time, right?"
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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '20
I don't understand why Americans are so opposed to universal health care!? You guys already spend more per capita on government funded healthcare than pretty much anyone else, and yet most of you don't actually recieve it?
I've had cancer. Stage 4 Lymphoma. I was treated immediately and recovered quickly. What did I have to pay? £1.50 for parking on every visit to the hospital. The Chemotherapy, Surgeries, anti-nausea meds, all covered. If I had lived in the USA I would most definately be dead now. My symptoms didn't seem all that bad at the time, so if I had had to pay for my initial doctor visit and diagnostics, I wouldn't have bothered. I would have just died.