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From a third-world immigrant traumatized by dysfunctional govt. institutions back home, and seeing some spectacular cockups by state-run institutions here, what
by jmeister 6y ago
From a third-world immigrant traumatized by dysfunctional govt. institutions back home, and seeing some spectacular cockups by state-run institutions here, what is the guarantee that UHC won’t be worse?
- happytoexplain 6y agoThere is no guarantee - but the more immediate problem is that talking heads spectacularly amplify such doubt for shallow political reasons. Similar to how "free college" gets turned into "communist mass starvation".
- afarrell 6y agoA significant percentage of the US is descended from those who abandoned the life they knew to move across an ocean because they were so afraid of a neighborhood or government conspiracy to murder them. For example: My wife's father's family. The relatives that didn't flee Europe were murdered in the early 1940s by a German government conspiracy.
- zerkten 6y agoThere are plenty of ways to phase a transition to mitigate concerns. It makes senses to take an approach like that. It doesn't make sense to continue the status quo. For any other change, there would generally be a preference from people to phase the changes, why not healthcare too?
- triceratops 6y agoI assume you believe there are some things the American government does better than your home country, otherwise you wouldn't be here. Why are you so worried it'll turn out poorly?