Healthcare is just a way to coerce the working class to produce value for the wealthy. That is the real reason why there is no universal healthcare in America.

He seems to know a lot about "young boys."

But where's the free healthcare?

People vote for this guy.

I'm disabled and can't afford a working computer to play video games, you rich motherfucker.

We have free health care? Coulda fooled me.

Rich people always think they pay for everyone. Wrong.

We are in the same society. A society with no hope is not a stable society.

Anybody who has ever been unfortunate enough to have to apply for any of these healthcare or food stipend programs would know that it's not as easy as the government makes it seem. In fact, the amount of bureaucracy, means testing, and highly restrictive income limitations means that most people don't qualify period and people who do qualify have to spend an inordinate amount of time waiting to hear back from the government to know if they have been accepted or not, all the while hoping and praying they don't get sick and can manage their money long enough to continue feeding themselves.

Case in point, my fiance is out of work right now and actively seeking work. She applied for both MediCAL and SNAP and was denied for MediCAL because she had earned too much already that year to qualify and the SNAP benefits totaled out to $20/month in food stamps, based on historical income, which is insufficient even for the most frugal of individuals to make work. This is for someone currently earning $0/month and being almost entirely supported by me.

After a certain point, it becomes a massive drain on your time and resources that could be spent looking for a job, so you stop bothering with the system altogether because who wants to spend hours doing paperwork and submitting claims just to get enough spare change to buy a bulk bag of rice to feed yourself a struggle meal?

I don't want to hear shit about "handouts" from anybody. My fiance paid her taxes faithfully for years without ever having to rely on the program, so where are her benefits? She has undoubtedly paid more into the system than she will ever extract.

Its a lot more rewarding than choking on a small carrot.

I'm not concerned about some young videogamer getting free healthcare. I'm more concerned with the DOGE GOBLIN getting BILLIONS in government contracts to build rockets that blow up spectacularly, wasting a billion dollars with every explosion, just so he can quip "Just a scratch."

That's a billion dollar scratch that could have made a huge difference in thousands of lives.

I'm not worried about American citizens getting health care, I'm worried about Foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs getting BILLIONS in government contracts, paid for by taxes on the working class, while calling those same workers/taxpayers "parasites."

Says the asshole mooching off the gold standard free healthcare given to congressmen.

I don't accept the premise that working a job to make someone else rich is axiomatically good.

Many jobs make the world worse. I'd rather someone sit at home and play Tetris than build murder-drones, or work on some sort of AI powered stalking-ad company.

Many of the jobs are just bullshit. Another "AI" company? Another product manager with no real decision making power? A few billion dollars poured into "the metaverse"? Waste of time and resources.

That aside, most jobs make the owners rich while labor gets a few crumbs. You work all day making widgets. The boss pays you $10. They sell your widgets for $1000. That's a bum deal. But there's a thousand desperate people waiting to take your spot, plus union busters eager to betray labor and beat you up. Pay people the real value of their labor, and treat them with respect, and you'd likely get more people working.

Johnson is a heretical, hypocritical, piece of shit. No one should take him seriously. His church should -- wait, he's southern baptist? The "we're going to split off because we want slavery" sect? Not surprising. Those assholes suck.

I only play computer games after I get home from working hard all day.

The same old "welfare queen" argument again.

I can't wait to pay for groceries with my free healthcare.

Shit, they're on to me.

First they came for the gamers, and I did not speak out, because I was busy hitting a sick 360° quickscope on Angel City.

I got fucked up in a video game and can't handle the defeat so I blame them for attention!

Another boomer fucking idiot saying idiot fucking boomer shit because idiot fucking boomers voted like boomer fucking idiots.

This is just the “violent video games make people violent” argument from the 90s and 00s. Fear mongering at its core.

claims mouthpiece of the medical insurance industry

FTFY

The argument is utterly stupid.

Ignoring that it is building on a fantasy reality for the moment. Even if you had free healthcare, and if only the financial costs of survival motivated people to get jobs, then the other costs of living, like for food and shelter, would still provide that motivation.

Oooh, I'm one of those! Gaming on foodstamps and social health in a US state, AMA.

nah they are playing video games all day because video games are more fun than toxic work environments and helping CEOs earn bonuses

I'd be interested to know how I can pay my electricity bill with my free healthcare. Also I need to go to the supermarket today; how do I convert free healthcare into a trolleyful of food?

The problem is that voters are so damn stupid that someone can make a statement like this without being interrogated.

Lmfao what free healthcare?

Can these monsters please just fuck off!

Utter BS

Where is this free healthcare? Because I'm paying out the ass for my very minimal coverage.

Is this Free Healthcare in the room with us now, you miserable ghoul?

Shut the fuck up, boomer. No seriously, get that dated, old man yells at cloud bullshit out of politics.

Free healthcare?

Wait, I can get free healthcare playing video games? Where?!?