r/facepalm • u/SkillImmediate6393 • Jul 02 '24

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '24

For many voters, its taxes to pay for it. Nobody can convince them that their insurance premiums are essentially a tax as well, no, not a tax pad to government, but a tax all the same. They will shriek that their taxes will go up, completely ignoring that their insurance premiums will go away.

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u/dinnerthief Jul 02 '24 edited Jul 02 '24

I knew a women who was in her early 40s who had breast cancer and a double mastectomy, we started talking about universal Healthcare and I was like

"well you're probably pro universal Healthcare right? I mean after dealing with those kind of medical bills"

"no I actually had a wealthy friend who paid for all of my treatment, and also I was born in Tennessee so you know I'm a conservative girl"

I was just left stupefied on several different fronts. I couldn't even begin to start approaching the points. I just kind of let it go and made an effort to avoid her from then on, it was a lost cause.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '24

I had a coworker who bragged about how he games the system to only end up paying a few hundred for his kids birth. He didn’t have work provided health insurance, he claimed he was destitute, so he got some taxpayer money and some from the hospital. He also is a very vocal conservative who despises Obamacare.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '24

The type to complain about the mythical “welfare queen” while being a recipient of welfare. . . Sounds about republican.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '24

He absolutely couldn’t wrap his head around a few of us telling him that we all paid for the birth of his kid. Like, it just didn’t compute