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Should the United States adopt a universal healthcare system?

Against. In the American system, the government has the ability to tie funds to access to government resources. This is most famously done when the government withheld federal funding to various states unless they adopted a speed limit of 55mph. It was deeply unpopular. The government made a similar play by making it so that individuals under the age of 21 cannot purchase or publicly possess alcohol. Think about that: old enough to vote, or go to war but not able to drink. And the government can do whatever mandates they like after the fact once universal healthcare is adopted. We do not know what various constraints they will implement. However, we already saw what the government will do: the government will withhold life-saving care if you do not submit to government mandates. They demanded people take an unproven gene therapy which required the government definition to be changed THREE TIMES before it could be called a vaccine. And it turns out most of the claims of the vaccines turned out to be false... The government was willing to allow people to be refused or removed from organ transplants, die from neglect, sanctioned doctors and removed their licenses for refusing to follow government mandates even when there were viable alternative medicines. We cannot allow universal healthcare because we cannot trust our health to a government that has repeatedly shown to be motivated by political expediency and actors within that government to be motivated by financial convenience. Private medical policies are by no means perfect, however, government medical policies have been shown to be far more detrimental to national wellbeing.

This is a situation where one must choose the lesser of two evils. Private insurance gatekeeps, but theoretically no treatment is out of bounds if you can pay. That's a cold truth. However, with government Universal Healthcare, if you run afoul of government, nothing can save you and the government will punish medical providers who dare help you.

Politics · Sep 24, 2026 · Should the United States adopt a universal healthcare system?