I know a hospice nurse whose reason for opposing universal healthcare is the number of “chronic” hospice patients that are abusing the system by going into hopice and not dying.

I think this statement fails to capture for some folks the importance of history. Knowing what happened in the past is one thing, understanding why things happened in the past is another thing. People with a failure of imagination know that fascism rose to power in WWII, but see no modern parallels because they never realized the purpose of learning history was to relate the past to the present.