It’s all grievances, no tangible policy… People who make a median wage think they’re not a tax burden themselves and resent any public spending on people or groups they don’t like. Example: the Tea Party. Those people couldn’t give two ■■■■■ about spending or debt. They just didn’t want any of it going to anybody they deemed not worthy.
This is one of the areas I am very much in the middle. We have a broken and extensively costly healthcare system that absolutely should be overhauled although on the other hand we should have a national health insurance plan that covers catastrophic care for such situations. For me the answer is somewhere in the middle.
My brother, very Republican pro Trump, hard working, good paying professional job, good insurance through his company would argue against single payer with the typical responses.
Then he got sick and his journey in the medical system began, buried under bills, unexplained costs, multiple surgeries and he came to the realization that our system is broken and needs a change.
Once one get’s in the cycle of needing care people tend to be forever in debt.