Here No Longer

Sure, poor people only have one function, in their eyes - to work to make wealth for the already wealthy (and not for themselves). If they are sick and can't perform that function, they have negative value.

Here in the UK, healthcare is free at point of delivery - there is no need for insurance, and everyone working contributes (which works out the same, given private companies aren't taking a heavy cut at each step)

What's worse is the guy I'm quoting keeps justifying it with lies and straw men. Yeah, we're somehow cherry-picking when we're talking about everything that's actually important... Like how our healthcare system is totally horrific, bordering on barbaric in comparison to the rest of the world, how some minimum wage workers can't even afford the most basic necessities, how our national debt keeps skyrocketing because we spend absurd and downright unjustifiable amounts of money on the military so some of our country's young men can bite the dust in a war against somebody who never attacked us...

Not sure what you mean?

The UK government has been dismantling the social support for the long-term unemployed and disabled for some years now (massively pro-capitalist "tory" party has been in power ,and introduced "austerity measures" which have been poorly received)

But that is more around paying for food, rent and so forth. Health is still free at point of delivery, although in some cases (such as diabetics unable to obtain accomodation and hence a fridge to keep their -free- insulin in) the dismantling of the social "net" has led to deaths or suicides.