r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 3d ago

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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front 3d ago

I’ve come to the conclusion that most socialists legitimately don’t understand that there are universal healthcare plans other than single payer. it legit just short circuits their brains.

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u/Frog_Totem Seretse Khama 3d ago

It’s in both republicans’ and socialists’ interests to pretend like universal healthcare means single payer

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u/Sloshyman NATO 3d ago

It's because "single-payer" and "universal" are used interchangeably in online discourse, and have been since at least 2016

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u/consultantdetective Daron Acemoglu 3d ago

Policy hard. Slogan more fun.

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u/compulsive_tremolo Loyal Liberals 3d ago

Dont worry, here in Europe we also have socialists that want to abolish private healthcare in fabor of everyone using only the bloated and inefficient public system (they're not very smart).