> The comments and downvotes here are probably from wealthy / well-off people on HN This is funny because statistically wealthy people are the ones usually aga

> The comments and downvotes here are probably from wealthy / well-off people on HN This is funny because statistically wealthy people are the ones usually against increases in taxes. I was born in Iran, so I’ve dealt with my fair share of bullshit. My conclusion from my life is that we are individuals and we are a collective as well. A collective where if there’s a lot of illness in a part of it, it makes us all sick. Second off we literally do not need more taxes to have proper healthcare in this country. We do not have a money problem, but a politics and policy problem. We have a problem that a lot of people think that by helping others, they’re the ones getting punished. A healthy society means a society that has more energy and time to work on problems that benefit us all. May I suggest this, instead of seeing healthcare coverage for more people as a punishment for you, see it as a collective investment to allow people to focus on things that matter. And, note that healthcare isn’t the point of service by a doctor. It means healthy city design. Healthy subsidies for food (instead of subsidies HFCS for example). It means better public transit. It means actual neighbors and neighborhoods. It means longer weekends.