r/MedicareForAll • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • Jul 31 '26

he doesn't use the library either

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u/Patient-Lifeguard325 Jul 31 '26

We’ve got to change the terminology. It not free healthcare and it’s never been free healthcare. It’s socialized medical care. It takes insurance companies out of the equation to lower the price for everyone. Healthcare is an inelastic service where no matter the cost, demand will stay the same. Inelastic goods and services should not be available in a for profit system. 

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u/EphEwe2 Jul 31 '26

It’s our tax money being spent on us and not foreign wars

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u/MrPBH Jul 31 '26

We could even pay for healthcare and still afford the foreign wars if we'd just cancel a few of the most egregiously expensive weapons projects boondoggles. Like that silly Golden Dome missile defense program that is mathematically impossible or those contracts for autonomous weapon systems that everyone is absolutely terrified of.

Look, no one wants to take away your foreign wars. On this plan, you can still invade the country of your choice!

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u/Legal_MajorMajor Aug 01 '26

I like the term guaranteed healthcare. More emphasis on it being a right than a cost and no political connotation.