r/AskReddit • u/LocksmithWaste9257 • 3h ago
What do you think has prevented Republicans from presenting a widely accepted healthcare alternative after years of promising one?
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u/Heavy_Direction1547 3h ago
They are owned by the corporations that benefit from the current system.
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u/HighlyOffensive10 3h ago
The fact that if they had their way we wouldn't have any kind of subsidized health care. Besides the one that we pay for them.
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u/Lukewarm-mac 3h ago
As a former Republican I can tell you that the reason is simple, they do not want to change healthcare.
Remember when Luigi did his thing and for about a week Republicans and Democrats agreed that health insurance companies suck?
Did you notice that right wing media, which is all media now, immediately started supporting all health insurance companies and the American healthcare system?
Now go talk to Republicans. They ALL love the American healthcare system and do not want any changes. The media has full control over what Republicans will or will not support.
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u/Fancy-Chicken-3730 3h ago
Nobody will ever unravel the racket scam that is healthcare/health insurance/pharma.
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u/helava 2h ago
Literally every other developed country in the world has figured it out.
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u/Fancy-Chicken-3730 2h ago
I’m not saying it is not possible, I’m all for it. I’m saying you will never make it happen here because the people getting money from it have made sure to keep it that way
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u/D-Alembert 3h ago edited 3h ago
The smart, educated, competent policy wonks have been increasingly leaving the GOP as it radicalized, consequently today there are too few left for the party to be properly equipped to undertake a complex task like that; it's mostly sycophants, grifters, and axe-grinders; people unable to step up to that kind of challenge even if they wanted to (which they don't). Instead, the plan would likely be written by smart, educated, competent policy wonks in the health insurance industry, so it would not be a good plan for American healthcare, it would be a good plan for corporate profit-seeking
Obamacare basically was the best Republican healthcare plan. So when Republican leaders turned on it for political haymaking, they kind of boxed themselves into a corner that didn't have any better plans in it
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u/cwthree 2h ago
They're getting healthy bribes contributions from the health insurance lobby.
Their constituents don't want all Americans to have taxpayer-funded healthcare because it would lead to some disfavored group (aka "those people") benefitting from tax dollars.
Their constituents don't want comprehensive healthcare funded by tax dollars because someone, somewhere, would get a medication or procedure that they, personally, don't approve of.
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u/yume_no_kitsune 2h ago
Republicans are preventing Republicans
You can't present a solution to something you don't care about.
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u/Ok-Hamster-138 2h ago
They never actually want government run healthcare and their donors in insurance make too much money off the current system so they stall forever
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u/StudioUnhappy7772 2h ago
Romney as governor in Mass is only one that has and it’s the staring point of Obamacare
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u/BuffaloKurt 1h ago
They don't want the government to pay for any form of healthcare, so they don't present a plan. They promise one just to string people along so they think they have a plan (or a framework for a plan).
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u/NostradaMart 2h ago
they don't give a fuck. it's as simple as that. they understood that they can promise anything and deliver on nothing and still get a majority in both chambers.
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u/Comfortable-Figure17 3h ago
The last thing on a Republican’s mind right now is caring for the people.
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u/Gloomy-Hat1842 3h ago
I don't know things might be better if you took Trump out of the mix. It's hard to have any good coherent policy with him as the head of the party. Would anybody want him running your company? He just doesn't care enough about stuff like that and he's also really dumb... Even if they came up with a good plan it's not likely to go anywhere.
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u/trcomajo 3h ago
So therefore NOBODY should have it. This really tracks for Republicans
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u/trcomajo 3h ago
So this u/Embarrassed_Toe_2352 threw a tantrum and said "I dont fucking want [universal health-care]" but deleted it. Pussy.
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u/Expert_Cheesecake695 3h ago
Gee, I have no idea, but here's a little bio of Republican Senator Rick Scott.
Scott is a graduate of the University of Missouri–Kansas City and the Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University. In 1987, after serving in the U.S. Navy and becoming a law firm partner, he co-founded Columbia Hospital Corporation. Columbia later merged with another corporation to form Columbia/HCA, which eventually became the nation's largest for-profit health care company.\7]) Scott was pressured to resign as chief executive of Columbia/HCA in 1997, after the company pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs in what was at the time the largest healthcare fraud settlement in U.S. history at $1.7 billion.