Why do you believe in Socialism?

[Sargerasraider]

Not familiar with refusing to insure people with pre-existing conditions prior to the ACA?

No, as a healthcare provider who provide tons of free / charity care, it's kind of offensive. The previous poster is also ignorant of EMTALA (now 30 years old).

[Bildur]

Because I don’t like seeing uneducated fellow human beings die in the streets from sickness and starvation

[Seefer]

[Deleted]

You are talking as though people were capitalists for thousands of years. Capitalism is a modern phenomenon, and the most recent post-WWII iteration is very, very specific and an outlier from the norm.

People are capitalists from stone age. Someone was always powerful enough to take first, sweetest and biggest chunk of mammoth meat.

[Hey There Guys its Metro]

No, I don't believe Socialism is real.

[RaoBurning]

Corporate subsidies and bank bailouts seem like they don't quite fit in with the others there. Start there and see where we end up.

[Stuffs]

Please tell me how the idea of a standing military is a concept unique to democratic socialism.

[Vash The Stampede]

To be clear, Yes. a man who cannot find work dying is the free market working as intended because he has no value and spending money on him when he has no value doesn't make sense.

Now morals come into play where we don't like people dying in the street so we build socialist safety nets. But sad as it may be, Yes that is the free market working as intended.

When Murica bailed out banks because too big to fail, we didn't seem to have a problem with that. In fact banks were so happy they gave their CEO's bonuses. But old man winter is dying of butt cancer and we must let the free market work as intended. Sorry Mr. Winter, nobody will miss you. That would be socialism. And as propaganda has taught me, socialism is just another word for communism.

What's that? Banks too big to fail? You need money? Go ahead and take your pockets worth cause that's not socialism. That's just good business decisions.

No, as a healthcare provider who provide tons of free / charity care, it's kind of offensive. The previous poster is also ignorant of EMTALA (now 30 years old).

I had insurance that denied me coverage cause pre-existing conditions. Stupid crap like a hernia, an infection, and just about everything really. Then Obama care came out and I get covered. Every time without question. I needed custom made butt cream with nitroglycerin and got it immediately without losing an arm or leg. While I've used charity care when insurance refuses to pay, it's not something I should need to worry about when I pay for insurance.