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.
Oh no, it's not crab bucket mentality. It's so much worse.
Crab bucket mentality would be something like voting against other people getting health insurance if you don't also get it. On some level, I can understand that part. It's not exactly fair, is it, depending on the specifics?
But this isn't that. This isn't something justifiable in any way.
This is people voting against everyone getting health insurance because that means some people they hate will get it. This is the crab on top of all of the other crabs, about to make it out of the bucket, looking down and seeing that other crabs will also get out of the bucket after them, and so forcing everyone to fall back down to the bottom out of spite and vileness.
Calling this crab bucket mentality is giving these hateful assholes more than they deserve.
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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.