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Flawed poll, my view has not changed at all. I am all for mandated sick leave, at least when a pandemic has been declared, and I am for access to healthcare for everyone, but not necessarily meaning universal health care as in the UK or Canada type system.
All countries always have access to health care. Access simply is a question of how much money you have. There is no society where the people with money can not get health care.
No. We should have had them before. We should have them now. But Republicans feel we can't afford them because we need to spend $850 billion bailing out airlines and giving tax cuts to the rich instead
Agreed, we SHOULD have paid sick days and quality health insurance. Which is why I've done everything in my life to secure a job that offers both.
Should the government force businesses to provide them to every worker, regardless of their skill level or wage? NO!
Agreed, we SHOULD have paid sick days and quality health insurance. Which is why I've done everything in my life to secure a job that offers both.
Should the government force businesses to provide them to every worker, regardless of their skill level or wage? NO!
Ok. And now because we don't have it, COVID-19 has become a much larger problem than it otherwise would have been, Americans who could have sought treatment promptly won't, and they will spread the disease much faster than in countries that offer health care and sick leave to their workers. It will cost far more to handle the economic depression to follow and more people will die. But God forbid we actually regulate the behavior of big business to save lives.
Has the pandemic in any way made you reconsider your position on health care and paid sick days?
No
Special situations call for special measures, but that does not mean you change the basic facts due to a natural disaster or the like.
Sadly many on the left are using this as a means to try and push their agenda, rather than just dealing with this pandemic and funding direct measures to combat it. Pelosi trying to insert things like repealing the Hyde Amendment (has nothing to do with COVID-9) is a perfect example.
There is absolutely nothing that a government can do to protect its people from a truly bad worldwide pandemic. We will be screwed no matter what. Life is like that.
You think that your government’s healthcare system can save you if a large asteroid strikes the earth? LOL
If have ins you get help. If don’t, people don’t go to the Dr n get sick - stay sick, their kids get sick and pass it on to your kids on the school bus.
I am 1000% against government run single payer healthcare. Quality goes up and prices go down when there
is competition. Government run anything has no incentive for improvements and they're not held accountable for their incompetence.
It would also, very dangerously, give them the power to decide who lives or dies, who gets life saving treatment or gets told to go home and die.
Do we want our healthcare run by an entity that can't even run Amtrack? That teaches "history" in our
schools to comply with the lies of the fake news media and anti american bs from the left?
No. We should have had them before. We should have them now. But Republicans feel we can't afford them because we need to spend $850 billion bailing out airlines and giving tax cuts to the rich instead
That figure is incorrect. $50 billion for the airlines out of an $850 relief package that isn't a giveaway. It's mostly low-interest loans. For the people that don't have health insurance, **** em'. They made their life choices and I refuse to pay for them. Let them die and be forgotten as people and use their deaths an example of what happens to the irresponsible. I feel the same way about drug addicts too. Let them OD and die. No rehab, no tough love. **** em' all!
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