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Perhaps a comment against it could be something like “why should I pay for someone else’s health care?”.
I guess if your beloved leader has told you enough times that socialized health care is bad (communism?), then you won’t investigate what that kind of health care really looks like, and you’ll parrot the statement in belief and acceptance.
I can't even.
IT GOES BOTH WAYS!
Could also be, "because we live in a society" which is a structure where a group of people help each other. That sentence falls apart quickly if applied to anything else: "why should I pay for someone else's road/water pipe/utilities poles"
We already pay for other people's healthcare, car accidents, house fires. That's how insurance works. We all pay into it, and some people have their claims paid, while others never make a claim.
Because if someone needs healthcare and can’t afford it, you’re going to pay for it anyway.
Unless you want a system where medical emergencies are turned away at the hospital door. It will be less expensive for you to pay for society’s preventative holistic care than it will be to pay for emergency room visits once the problems have gotten worse.
A lot of people definitely want that, especially if it's brown people or LGBT+ people having the emergencies.
Since the fall of Roe, some hospitals with strict abortion bans have been doing exactly just that to pregnant women experiencing emergencies.