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In reply to the discussion: European-style welfare states are lovely! [View all]csziggy
(34,139 posts)Why should health care be any different?
I don't want MY taxes to go towards torture, Guantanamo, invasion of other sovereign countries, spying on American citizens, and many other programs that are paid for by my tax money.
Those things do not make my fellow citizens better educated or healthier and they do not make businesses in this country better able to compete with companies that do NOT have to pay for health insurance for their workers or do remedial training because our schools do not teach needed skills.
I also don't have the "freedom" to chose the health insurance I currently have. My husband works in order to get health insurance for the two of us. We used to have a business but could not get private health insurance for any price. So we closed our business and he went to work at a crappy job so we could have insurance until we're old enough for Medicare. His employer selects what company we get insurance from and what kind of policies we can chose from.
MOST Americans have not freedom to chose their health insurance. They just have been brainwashed to think that the private insurance they get from their employers is a free choice when it really is not.