I think most people around here know that our healthcare payment structure is totally whack. However, we're not the people who need to know this.
Try showing an NPR article about universal healthcare to Joe USA. I guarantee you'll get one or all of the following responses:
1: I don't want my taxes to go up
2: I don't want to pay for illegals to go to the doctor for free
3: My insurance will get worse
4: I like my doctor, I don't want to be forced to go to a worse one
5: I don't want the government deciding when I go to the doctor
6: I don't want to wait six months for a doctor appointment
7: NPR has a liberal agenda
Many of my family and extended social circles are quite conservative (in the USA sense) because of how I was brought up. I have heard all of these and more every time the concept of universal healthcare is brought up.
Most of the reasoning I hear is not based on facts, but on emotionally misleading arguments from the network of memes and punditry where they get their info. And when they vote, they vote for people who oppose universal healthcare on these fallacious bases.
How do you convince someone like this that universal healthcare is better for all of us?
Try showing an NPR article about universal healthcare to Joe USA. I guarantee you'll get one or all of the following responses:
1: I don't want my taxes to go up
2: I don't want to pay for illegals to go to the doctor for free
3: My insurance will get worse
4: I like my doctor, I don't want to be forced to go to a worse one
5: I don't want the government deciding when I go to the doctor
6: I don't want to wait six months for a doctor appointment
7: NPR has a liberal agenda
Many of my family and extended social circles are quite conservative (in the USA sense) because of how I was brought up. I have heard all of these and more every time the concept of universal healthcare is brought up.
Most of the reasoning I hear is not based on facts, but on emotionally misleading arguments from the network of memes and punditry where they get their info. And when they vote, they vote for people who oppose universal healthcare on these fallacious bases.
How do you convince someone like this that universal healthcare is better for all of us?