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by frgtpsswrdlame 3299 days ago
It's really about double jeopardy. For a second put yourself behind the veil of ignorance. You are prebirth, you have no control over any factor of your birth other than one. That factor is that you get to pick whether you are born into a country with universal healthcare or one with non-mandated insurance where companies are able to discriminate on pre-existing conditions. Anyone who is risk averse is going to pick the universal healthcare one, otherwise you are risking a life where you are both sick but also bankrupted by medical costs.

That some people in society look at the circumstances of their birth and post-hoc reason that they don't want universal healthcare because it wouldn't have benefitted them is not the point really.