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Intractable

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7. "So why can't we have free health insurance? "

Reply to LilElf70 (Reply #5)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 07:33 AM

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It wouldn't be free. It would be incorporated into our taxes.

But, there are those -- let's call them MAGAs -- who would not want to contribute to healthcare structures that fund care for minorities. It's a pervasive mindset among Republican politicians and voters not to unionize with other demographics.

Dems like to think we're all in this together. Republicans don't want together. I live among them.

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