How health care as a commodity screws both the poor and the affluent

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5. It's the resistance to treating poor "freeloaders"

I think this is the sticking point. No one wants to "redistribute" income to catch the infected tooth while it's cheap. No argument about workplace productivity, disability costs, or human suffering/torture will prevail over the short-term idea that money is coming out of one working guy's (it's always a white guy) and going to subsidize the healthcare of someone else (usually painted as an overweight smoker, a black woman, or an illegal immigrant). It doesn't matter that the healthcare will be there when the white guy has his heart attack. It doesn't matter that the white guy's mother is already on Medicare. All that matter's is the idea that universal healthcare "redistributes" money somehow.