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The problem is not a technical one. It's about idealogy/belief. The left believes that healthcare should be a right - that everyone should get care regardless
by richardthered 9y ago
The problem is not a technical one.
It's about idealogy/belief.
The left believes that healthcare should be a right - that everyone should get care regardless of whether you are homeless, or a billionaire.
The right believes that it is not a right. That you should only get healthcare if you earn it. If you are homeless, too bad. You die.
Now, conservatives know that they can't come right out and say it that way, but ultimately, that's what a lot of people believe. They don't want to pay for someone else's care.
So, the arguments aren't really about 'what is the most efficient way to pay for everyone to get healthcare'.
The arguments are about the fact that half the population doesn't want to pay for healthcare for someone else.
- makomk 9y agoThat's certainly the standard left-wing perspective on it, yes. The problem with this is that just declaring something like healthcare a "right" doesn't give people it - you need vast numbers of doctors, hospitals, surgeons and medications and supplies, all of which have to be funded and organised somehow. You need some way of keeping the costs under control and the services operating effectively across something with hundreds of millions of customers. The American left has no more idea how to do this than the right, so they resort to emotional appeals instead.
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