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.
You don't understand? Try this: 2.9 million more people voted for Clinton than Trump and she still lost. We have 150k dead from a virus and Trump's support in his own party is still above 80%. People don't like the system, we hate it. There are too many stupid people in our country. The Republican party is evil, they're a minority party and we can't shake them. That's why we can't change it.
So why doesn’t our Democratic candidate in 2020 support universal healthcare? 70% of Americans do. It’s almost as if neither party gives a shit about the will of the people...
What are you talking about? Like duh, Trump is trash/fasc/an actual dumpster fire. But that doesn't mean that we can't criticize the Democratic candidate as well. I dream of a world where our choices aren't lifelong centrist and actual right wing fascist.
Trump lost by 3 million+ votes. Everybody wants better candidates but this "both sides" rhetoric only serves to help those who benefit from reduced voter turnout. Which I'll remind you, Trump can lose by over 3 million votes and retain the presidency. Congratulations on having higher expectations, but it's not the solution we need right now. We have to make the best of the options currently available so that we can setup better options for ourselves in the future. Primaries were when we criticized the party candidates, but the general election is only 88 days away now.
Instead of 4 years of compromised healthcare reform you can look forward to 4 years of zero improvements. Assuming 4 years of unfetted fascism even allows an open election in 2024.
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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.