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Aeolus451 said:
TaMpAbLaCk said:
Every civilized country and even some not so civilized countries all have free health care for all citizens. That is except for the USA smh! These are just a few that do... UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, Germany (we taught those last 2 Democracy after WW2 and they are putting us to shame now smh), France, Cuba etc

There no such thing as "free" healthcare. Somebody is paying for it. There's pros and cons to both kinds of healthcare. It's actually better for the world if not everyone is conforming to same thing.

I feel like you don't really understand it.  People like arguing against universal health care (or insurance or whatever else you want to brand it) by saying it "isn't free" and phrase it like someone else is paying for others.  What you don't understand is that's how ANY insurance works.  Insurance isn't covering the amount you put in, necessarily.  The reason it works is because not everyone is going to need it.  So actually it IS better if everyone conformed to it, because insurance is about managing risk.  The more people who participate, the cheaper it will be per person.  Having insurance doesn't increase the number of people who NEED medical attention.  It may increase the number of people who go, which can in turn mean more people coming up with less medical issues in the future.

So the last sentence you put there doesn't apply in this case.