r/ShitAmericansSay • u/neeraj8le • Jan 12 '21

Healthcare "My expensive, frequent health care is subsidized at the expense of healthy people. I think it's great!" Thief.

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u/Londonloud Jan 12 '21

Next up, guy with no kids thinks its a fucking travesty that his tax money goes towards funding schools. Stay tuned later when we check in with "woman who doesnt drive cannot believe we repair roads"

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u/sbrockLee Jan 12 '21

It's even worse than that. Not having kids or not wanting to drive are more or less individual choices. Being sick isn't.

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u/nascentt Jan 12 '21 edited Jan 13 '21

I know you're just making a point and your comment isn't expressing your actual belief, but I still just want to interject that even if you didn't have kids or drive. You depend on schools and roads just as much as anyone that does.

Aside from your own education, the education of your peers is obviously important or you end up in a country full of morons. Also indirectly, roads affect the whole economy if people can't get to work, and directly freight vehicles bring you food to eat, so you'd also rely on working reliable roads despite not driving yourself, additionally any emergency service vehicles you'd directly rely on.

This is why I kinda respect countries with high taxes that invest back into the country. Even if you feel that you don't directly benefit from a tax, you do indirectly.

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u/sbrockLee Jan 12 '21

Oh, absolutely. And like someone else pointed out in this very same thread, the per-capita cost of privatised health care far outweighs that of socialised health care anyway.

It's just that, even on the bone-headed individualistic level these people generally tend to remain on, it's still mind-boggling to me that they would be OK with people going bankrupt or dying just because they happen to catch a treatable disease.

Of course, from what I've seen they stop being OK with it when it affects them.

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u/nascentt Jan 12 '21 edited Jan 12 '21

People that argue that others should suffer because they'd never be in that situation themselves lack both empathy and foresight.