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by chankstein38
828 days ago
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Yeah I don't really get it either except that there's a whole basically half of the media that will do anything they can to demonize it. Our healthcare as it is now is atrocious. I wait a month for an appointment for a simple thing. I have a friend whose kid is special needs and he has been waiting for months for results of a genetics test that he's repeatedly been told they have but they keep rescheduling because "the results aren't ready yet." It's costing him an arm a leg and his kid is not getting potentially important treatment because of it. But I have heard endless talking points about how "You'll just wait until you die under a single payer" or that care will degrade. It's sad. I've had arguments with people about this and they can only repeat those talking points and pretend they have personal experience with people in other countries because some talking head on the radio told them "The Brits are always waiting for their healthcare some die before getting there" I was part of these people a decade ago. I've grown a lot since then and the time there has become a huge learning experience because I now see how manipulated I was. I thought I was "informed" because I listened to these talking heads tell me what to think all day. Truth is, I feel more informed today. I learn from whatever comes up but everything comes through a lens of "This may be special interests manipulating me." Anyway, yeah. Long story short, from my perspective at least, the people against it don't really know why they're against it. They've just been told to think that and they think that makes them informed. The reality is our healthcare system is trash and will bankrupt anyone but the richest people in the case of an emergency but a huge percentage of the US is against making it better because SOCIALISM. |
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There are many people who oppose things they don't understand because they haven't looked. There are also people who oppose things temporarily because they looked but have unanswered questions or some of the details don't make sense. We'd probably make more headway working to convince the people who will listen than trying to convince people who are ideologically opposed.