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one of the stupidest things in hindsight was when you'd talk to people about nationalizing healthcare you'd get bullshit like "you wouldn't want the government controlling your healthcare" and the reality is the fake "small government" advocates will absolutely control your healthcare. They just want to take a little off the top while they do it and they want to be able to deny you healthcare.
Death panels are apparently okay as long as they're making decisions that benefit shareholders.
Yeah, the government controls your health care whether or not they're actually running the hospitals.
Plus, the GOP loves statements like that because they actively sabotage the government. While far from perfect, plenty of countries are capable of adequately running public health care systems, along with plenty of other government programs (roads, prisons, education, national defense, etc). The GOP's whole strategy is to purposefully break systems and then point at the broken system and claim that this is why we need to privatize it. Government run programs are just as good as the government as a whole, and the GOP are poisoning the US government.
One of the core principles of Republican thought is "no one tells me what to do. I tell other people what to do." Everything else follows from that.
Well that and the "in groups for laws to protect but not bind, outgroups for laws to bind but not protect " thing.
I think it's more that they want to privatize everything that isn't and keep private all that is. Getting the government taxes in their pockets is the only strategy. "All that money for me and none for thee"
Always pissed me off because if you have to choose do you want an unelected corporation concerned primarily with profits controlling access to your healthcare or one where you have the ability to vote them out?
Just a moronic talking point all the way down.