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Shower thought – they don’t want universal healthcare because it would increase competition

For the longest time I didn’t get Republican/other opposition to universal healthcare. “Do you know how much entrepreneurialism is being squelched because people are stuck in waged work and don’t have to time/energy to start their own thing??” I would think to myself. If you’re all about business and innovation and entrepreneurship, universal healthcare should be top on your list! But it suddenly occurred to me, they know how much entrepreneurialism is being squelched, and that’s exactly the point. How many fewer people would submit themselves to the indignities of waged labor if the fear of catastrophic illness wasn’t chaining them to that job they hate that makes someone else rich! Makes ya think…


For the longest time I didn’t get Republican/other opposition to universal healthcare. “Do you know how much entrepreneurialism is being squelched because people are stuck in waged work and don’t have to time/energy to start their own thing??” I would think to myself. If you’re all about business and innovation and entrepreneurship, universal healthcare should be top on your list! But it suddenly occurred to me, they know how much entrepreneurialism is being squelched, and that’s exactly the point. How many fewer people would submit themselves to the indignities of waged labor if the fear of catastrophic illness wasn’t chaining them to that job they hate that makes someone else rich! Makes ya think…

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