As soon as they realized the benefits. Either that, or the resistant ones would die-off. Good riddance.

Half of the GOP voters didn't even know that "Obamacare" was the ACA until the govt was ready to take it away from them. Once you give people something they like it is hard to take it back. Voters in both parties like affordable health care and those who are using it as a campaign issue are winning.

Medicaid, usually really sick and essentially destitute after spending what they had on treatment, they were suddenly “entitled to it,” but often threw in “not like those other people.” Always wanted to stamp their application “Denied,” but didn’t.

I’m sure some stoics just died or suffered.

their use of government benefits like Medicare, Medicaid, SS or Unemployment is legitimate. Those brown and black people using it are unAmerican freeloaders abusing the system.

Just like their teen niece's or daughter's abortion was justified, but every other abortion is an abomination.

I think of my right-wing mother and aunt and how eagerly they used their Medicare. That form of socialized medicine was just FINE with them.

Right wingers will always rationalize that THEY are entitled to benefits ... unlike THOSE other people ...

Until the entire cost of the American Criminal Enterprise Healthcare System is reset and drastically reduced, single payer will never happen because it is not affordable at the current and ever rising rates.

showed Medicare-for-all would cost 32 TRILLION $ over the next 10 years. Scary, right? Un-doable.

It was helpfully pointed out that that meant saving 2 TRILLION $ over the current system, while covering 30 million more people.

The richest country in the world can do this, no problem.

more debt. Respectfully I hugely disagree with you; healthcare for all, at the current insane price gouging rates, is absolutely not affordable or doable. Second, why should a country providing some of the worst documented quality of healthcare in the world be rewarded with the current unaffordable rates?! It is beyond a disgrace.

while simultaneously refusing to use the bargaining power to, say, negotiate lower prices for drugs or hospitalizations or whatever. We also continually spend an obscene amount on a Defense department that cannot win a war and is seemingly uninterested in cyberwar. We even give them--without a debate!--billions more than they ask for.

It is about priorities. We can protect the interests of businesses and the rich, or we can protect the interests of our citizens. Vote for your preference.

In typical Rand fashion, it makes no sense at all. So basically, it's only moral to take public assistance if you don't believe in it.

Public assistance comes from tax money. Tax money is a form of theft. If you don't believe taxes are theft and therefore you are entitled to benefit from it, you are immoral. But if you do not believe in taxation you recognize that it is theft, and any benefit you receive back is actually restitution for the original theft. Since it is okay to accept restitution of stolen money, it is moral to accept the public benefit.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ayn-rand-social-security/

not Medicare for all. People do not understand Medicare and Social Security are essentially insurance programs.

They'd use it enthusiastically while condemning those unworthy of it.

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the Obama fight - when many of us hoped for at least a public option. We would have people at town halls with signs saying “keep your hands off my Medicare”. Dunces.

Just like a stupid amount of them separated the ACA from "Obamacare". Same already happens with Medicare, Medicaid, and every other social program that keeps our country going.

The good news is that they're a shrinking demographic. The bad news is that their voting power keeps increasing despite this.

Do they refuse to drive their cars on our socialist roads? Do they never go to the library?

I hope the do turn down single payer if we ever get it. There will soon be less red hat traitors around that way LOL