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Money is going to be a very important factor and most conservatives want the government to spend less, not more.
Many conservative contentions with Universal Healthcare revolve around the idea that it is going to cost more.
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except when it comes to the military of course.
it is curious, this split in priorities.
you could imagine a situation in which maintaining the basic physical and mental well-being of the population would matter as much as developing new and improved ways to kill people. we are not in such a situation.
also, it seems to me that this position on health care is of a piece with the strange notion that taxation is an end in itself visited upon the holders of capital by an evil state, which is understood as being a generator of irrationality in itself---as a function of the market ideology that underpins most conservative thinking these days. so you get this absurd line about taxes existing to punish the wealthy. so long as this position passes for reasonable, you will never see a shift away from the kind of capitalist barbarism you have now (think about the implications of unequal access to basic health care along income level [dare we say class?] lines and you can work this out for yourselves--it is easy)
strange how that works, isnt it?