What do you think of Pope Leo stating that universal health care is a "moral imperative"?

[Anonymous]

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pope-leo-calls-universal-healthcare-moral-imperative-2026-03-18/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQtMAVjbGNrBC0v22V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHsISE79-gzifVPBlqtocRCwSEEQg7FepFjW-mivrW4kLSchSbiOV3WRWdD39_aem_BaktE3DSGlm4RQSzJ4hvdg

[Tamera952]

A big DUHHHHH…… seems like that ‘ol fool in the white robe, is overstating the obvious! — HEALTHCARE FOR PROFIT, DOES NOT WORK—We are the only idiots still trying to make money off of it. It end up like a an expensive RACKET, and if we had a universal healthcare model, INSURANCE COMPANIES (that we all hate and loathe) would become OBSOLETE OVERNIGHT. All that copay crap, and not wanting to cover procedures, and fighting with them, and huge medical bills, and crazy crap with it tied to your employers, would ALL GO AWAY!!!

WE CAN AFFORD IT— don’t tell me we can’t have it, while pissing away 2 billion a day on a pointless, goalless war, so OrangeTurd can get his war boner on, and play boom boom. The pentagon looses more money in their ‘sofa cushions’ (so to speak) than the total cost for all Americans to have healthcare! It’s a basic RIGHT. We have 11 aircraft carriers— maybe if we downsized to 9, that pays for it for one year! I mean come on.

[jazzy34]

He’s right.

[Zack-Bann]

It’s the most American thing he can say honestly.


Because you have to have grown up without universal healthcare and see it as this utopia in order to call it that


Anyone who’s experiencing a free healthcare system knows that all it does is bleed the people dry through taxes and have that money spent on all the welfare leeches who don’t even work and spent their days getting medical treatment to the point they block the hospitals to those who might need it, forcing them to rely on private clinics for medical treatment which are only partially covered by healthcare and require extra money (the only way they don’t get backed up too)


So basically universal healthcare is you paying for other people’s treatment and then paying for your own


I recently got an ACL surgery in one such country and it’s driving close to bankruptcy

[DryGermanGuy]

All religious considerations aside, it's absolutely logical to have a universal healthcare system, as it profits the society as a whole. German people as the first adaptors, for example, live longer and healthier lives with lower healthcare costs than US-Americans.

[Tamera952]

100% well said.

[Master_Debator]

Democrat by American standards. Back in the 80's they wanted to remove them... oh, now they're votes for them though. Remove the fake votes, revove the dems. Save act.

[Tamera952]

Huh? …? Say what?

[strateguy632]

Well he didn't say FREE did he? So we have health care for everyone. No exclusions! Also when he talks about politics it chases away the Catholics on the other political side. For each new convert to catholicism seven left it!

[Miristheiss]

So, people can be forced to go to work at clinics and hospitals?

They can be forced to do it for no pay or compensation?

They are slaves?

[Tamera952]

Huh? …? Do you even bother to think before your knee jerk reaction is typing out this crap? …How do you automatically jump to ‘doctors and people being FORCED to work in clinics’…. And even more crazy, as ‘slaves’ for ‘no compensation’? —Where the fu*k did you come up with that? Nobody ever has suggested that as an idea, or a plan.

[Miristheiss]

@Tamera952
Any of this collectivism, healthcare is a right talk boils down to that.

[Tamera952]

No, it doesn’t, not even close. Don’t be daft.

[WindAtMyBack]

Who cares what the pope says? He's just some dude with an opinion like everyone else.

[exitseven]

he can afford to say it. It won't come out of his pocket/. When the Vatican opens a free health clinic in Rome I might reconsider.

[FreyaRed]

Universal healthcare is a nice buzzword but who shall pay for those who contribute nothing?

[Tamera952]

The rich, and the tax payers, ideally.

[Dargil]

Reducing the abortion rate is also a moral imperative.

[Tamera952]

Hahahahhahhaaa! A moral imperative. You’re funny. I think they should be giving free coupons out nationwide, at 7-11 for free quickie abortions wherever you get oil changes and tires! I think they should be passing them out like candy to everyone, and anyone! The more the merrier. Abort, abort, abort!!! I also think you should have to pass a test to become a parent, and if you score too low, cause you’re too stupid, then that equals forced sterilization on the spot, …. with a coupon for a discount on any adoption of your choice, as a conciliatory prize!

[Dargil]

@Tamera952 . I am sure that are very proud.

[Mike_Hum]

Then he can start spending the catholic church’s money on people’s healthcare.

[msc545]

It is indeed a moral imperative - not that anyone cares. What people really care about is money.

[Pterodon]

Shut up. Take care of your cult and stay out of politics

[loveslongnails]

Smart dude. It should be.

[beefcakebradybatson]

RIGHT ON, YOUR HOLINESS !!!

[Agape93]

Like it means nothing. Nobody listens to him

[Anonymous]

He should stick to the Bible.

[Asker]

He did!!!