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A Boring Dystopia
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I know a woman. She grew up with her mom, and her brother. When her brother was born, he had significant medical problems. (The father, being just about the worst POS to exist, reacted to news of his son's medical problems by finding himself a new girlfriend.) Since this happened in the US, the family had to sell their house and property, and this family grew up on the edge of homelessness as a result.
When this happens to one person it can affect generations. Healthcare more like what the rest of the world has could have allowed these people to be contributors to society (and taxes) instead of burdens to them.
Problem is, Money Obsessed Persons are often too stupid to understand any other concepts than money. They cannot understand cause and effect for anything that will happen more than three months from a given date. So the idea that helping a child now equals a taxpayer in the future is not something they are able to understand.