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Dept. of VA Under Fire for Treating Illegal Aliens While Ignoring Care for Veterans (townhall.com)
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The VA can't even handle veteran care properly, this is just kicking veterans while they're down.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's not the case.

"Patients in peer nations generally have similar or shorter wait times than patients in the United States for a variety of services, refuting the argument that universal coverage would necessarily result in longer wait times in the future."

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/truth-wait-times-universal-coverage-systems/

Americans also concerned with the increase in taxes

We pay more than those with universal healthcare because we pay for middlemen, advertisements, and other bloat that corporations cause. It would ultimately save us money to ditch the corporate middlemen and have a service that works for everyone:

"Second, we compared extending the current system with the alternative Medicare for All policy, which can save the same number of lives at a cost that is $631 billion lower than the cost of extending the current system."

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30857-6/fulltext

Even if it wasn't cost effective (it is far more cost effective), it's the morally correct thing to do to treat the sick.

We are already being taxed to death.

And that's because the rich do not pay their fair share. We are taking on a tax burden that the rich unfairly shoved onto us, but that's a different discussion. One that conservatives don't care about as evidenced by the complete lack of post on the matter in this sub.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If i may, i might even suggest that treating the sick is the Christian thing to do. Not that I'm religious, it's just a great sentiment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If Jesus came back and visited a Trump rally, they would have crucified him a second time for daring to suggest something as communist as "treat the sick".