Will Marshall
New member
- Joined
- Nov 23, 2017
- Messages
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- Location
- rural New South Wales, Australia
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Socialist
Righto, so I'm from Australia, and here we have socialised healthcare - healthcare administered by the government. Everybody has it, and we also have private health insurance available - lots of people have both private and public healthcare.
So my question is, what's with America's problem with socialised healthcare? I realize that the majority aren't rabidly for or against it and most of the more overt bickering goes on among Congressmen, but socialised healthcare is great. If anything, most Australians believe it should be expanded, because it DOES lower insurance and healthcare costs.
Is it because of the Republican Party's "free-market-at-all-costs" platform? Are people all just still terrified of socialism? Is there a perception that big government is inherently evil and the expansion of public healthcare will infringe on peoples' civil liberties?
So my question is, what's with America's problem with socialised healthcare? I realize that the majority aren't rabidly for or against it and most of the more overt bickering goes on among Congressmen, but socialised healthcare is great. If anything, most Australians believe it should be expanded, because it DOES lower insurance and healthcare costs.
Is it because of the Republican Party's "free-market-at-all-costs" platform? Are people all just still terrified of socialism? Is there a perception that big government is inherently evil and the expansion of public healthcare will infringe on peoples' civil liberties?