• ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

    I don’t like the term “free healthcare”, because most of us would be paying for it in taxes, it would be more accurate to call it “socialized healthcare”.

    Saying “I want free healthcare” allows the media to twist your words and make you look like some “entitled brat” that “want everything for free”.

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        9 days ago

        The government doesn’t have any money. They decide how to spend our taxes…

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          8 days ago

          The government doesn’t get money from taxes. It prints money, the taxes are how it removes money from circulation.

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      9 days ago

      Thats the problem. The media and too much of the usa wouldnt accept “socialized healthcare” becuase that sounds like socialism and enough people arent educated enough to know what that really means

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      8 days ago

      It sort of is free though.

      With private healthcare your coverage price goes up with medical needs. So the one time you need healthcare is the one time that you have to pay more for it.

      With socialized healthcare you just pay the same base rate as everyone else, regardless of if you have complicated medical needs or not. Also in socialized healthcare if you don’t have a job you don’t pay anything, but you still get medical care.