Should healthcare and education be free for everyone?
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Right wing nuts love to frame the argument this way. Free this, Free that. Nothing is free. I am for UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE. EVERYONE who works pays in. Yes there will always be a few leaches, that's never going away completely, but mental heath care would go a long way towards helping that as many of those people have mental health issues. Same thing for addiction treatment. Side: Pro
With America and the U.K., now officially in recession and the NY Times reporting that Europe is heading for its worst slump ever, you're asking ''should health-care and education be free for everyone''? You should get your priorities right and be asking what measures should the western governments employ to avoid a depression? Should the world's free democratic nations borrow even more money to get their workforce back into employment in such schemes as infrastructure improvements and avoid having to pay out $ trillions in benefits, with no tangible results as well as having to bear the cost of the destructive civil unrest which inevitably follows mass unemployment? There's a time and place for everything but such issues as free education and health-care should be at the bottom of the priority list in the middle of a pandemic emergency and a global economic crisis. MAN, MAN OH MAN. Side: Pro
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Accessible education and health care can be investments just as much as infrastructural development. Arguably, a lack of investment in these resources contributed significantly to these countries being in their present predicament. I'm afraid your analysis here lacks explanatory force. Side: Pro
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There is no such thing as free healthcare or free education. From my own pocket I pay very little towards healthcare and feel sorry for Americans who are fleeced when it comes to such , also I benefited from free education for 4 years where I paid for nothing but text books The costs for education and healthcare in the U S are ridiculous and I’m always astonished at how a sizable amount of Americans willingly support such a system and rabidly attack anyone who points this fact out Side: Pro
Yep, education and healthcare in the US are absolute rackets that don't serve the average person at all. Some municipalities and states do better than others, but the general rule holds (in part because of federal coercion of lower political bodies). Acknowledging that goes against the american 'ethos' so anyone who believes the country is the beacon on the hill has to be hostile to the suggestion. Side: Pro
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