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Perhaps a comment against it could be something like “why should I pay for someone else’s health care?”.
I guess if your beloved leader has told you enough times that socialized health care is bad (communism?), then you won’t investigate what that kind of health care really looks like, and you’ll parrot the statement in belief and acceptance.
I can't even.
IT GOES BOTH WAYS!
Could also be, "because we live in a society" which is a structure where a group of people help each other. That sentence falls apart quickly if applied to anything else: "why should I pay for someone else's road/water pipe/utilities poles"