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GetOutOfNATO t1_izjtair wrote

One more reason to avoid universal healthcare. It just collapses under its own weight when voters inevitably decide to defund it.

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soldforaspaceship t1_izkimwj wrote

Nearly everyone in the UK supports the NHS and would pay more taxes to fund it further. No one wants to move away from Universal Healthcare. You'd have to be insane to consider it.

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GetOutOfNATO t1_izruxhf wrote

>Nearly everyone in the UK supports the NHS and would pay more taxes to fund it further. No one wants to move away from Universal Healthcare.

Except the exact opposite is happening, out of economic necessity. Because it doesn’t work.

>You'd have to be insane to consider it.

People are insane because they don’t want to be forced to pay for terrible underfunded government-run healthcare that they might not even use?

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more_beans_mrtaggart t1_izkuz43 wrote

Voters will never decide to defund it.

But they will never get that option.

They will get to vote for someone who wants to take back control of borders, or someone who wants “tighter fiscal control” or lower taxes.

That someone is going to defund universal healthcare. That someone isn’t going to take back control, and has no intention of getting fiscal control.

It’s the way they work.

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GetOutOfNATO t1_izl08xr wrote

If that’s true then why do they keep voting for politicians who defund it?

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more_beans_mrtaggart t1_izl0cea wrote

I think you need to re-read my comment.

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GetOutOfNATO t1_izl92cy wrote

If you vote for someone who wants to defund healthcare, then obviously it wasn’t a dealbreaker for you. I don’t accept your narrative that elected officials don’t represent the people who voted for them.

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