Replace "original intent" with "context" and I agree 100% with you.

I think that this is important to point out because we don't really have access to each other's "intention" (whatever this means); at most what they say and do, and specially for politics there's often a big mismatch between the alleged intentions of a policy vs. what the policy achieves.

Or, playing along the pic: if that random scribble is between a "5" and a "7", then it means six, no matter if the author claims "actually it's a nine".

(NB: I'm discussing this on general grounds, based on the image. I'm not from USA nor discussing its healthcare.)

I agree there. This comic implies that both observers are correct because they are looking at the same thing from different angles; but that's not how most political issues are. It doesn't matter what your perspective on human rights is. If your perspective says human rights are not good: you're wrong. It's more akin to two people looking at the exact same thing, but one of them has glasses on that make them see ghosts and goblins that aren't really there.

It's actually pretty on point, but OP's conclusion is off. People are discounting the amount of Americans that are just good with doing a bit of frontier surgery on themselves and calling it a day.

Yeah they have bad planning for the future during end-of-life care. But technically speaking it would cause them to pay more in the short term for little benefit.

It's important to know that's where the argument "it would cost me more" comes from. That way you can persuade more effectively.

"You won't get to choose your doctor."

I already can't.

It's an edit. The original has one guy saying 6, the other saying 9, because the creator naively thought "oh the political divide is really just down to people not understanding each other". This is a fairly common opinion of dipshit american centrists.

The edited version points out how this is incorrect, and that in reality different people have entirely different political views which cannot be reconciled. The example used is that rich people (the same ones that make up the US government and receive bribes from health insurance companies, for instance) want to keep making money from predatory health insurance and so oppose universal healthcare, while the average citizen supports universal healthcare.

It's not. The two people in the picture are disagreeing. The joke is that normally this picture would be captioned with two people simply disagreeing over weather the shape is a 6 or a 9, but instead they're disagreeing with a political position.

Says why right in the picture.

"Fuck them poor people"