Should healthcare be free for everyone?
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Con
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Let me be clear, I do NOT expect "FREE" healthcare. Nobody in the world has "free" health care. However ALL the countries rated "better than" the U.S. have "Universal" health care meaning everybody pays into it, (like good little socialists ;-), and it's there for everybody that needs it. Pre-existing conditions don't count, and it's SO much cheaper than ours "Rated better than the U.S.": Last I checked, there were 37 countries rated as such. Most have Universal Health Care. "Cheaper than ours": EVERY industrialized country has health care cheaper than ours ... WAY cheaper! Check it out. ;-( Side: Pro
This is the opening paragraph of the Constitution of the United States of America: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America" "Promote the General Welfare." I think that says it all doesn't it? Side: Pro
Declaration of Independence The first sentence of the second paragraph reads:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Life Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. All things you don't have without being healthy. Side: Pro
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Let me be clear, I do NOT expect "FREE" healthcare. Nobody in the world has "free" health care. However ALL the countries rated "better than" the U.S. have "Universal" health care meaning everybody pays into it, (like good little socialists ;-), and it's there for everybody that needs it. Pre-existing conditions don't count, and it's SO much cheaper than ours The thing which annoys me is that the right pretends like universal healthcare would be your only option. In all the countries which have it, you can still pay for private care if you so desire. But the existence of universal healthcare ensures that -- in most cases -- people don't get priced out of life. Side: Pro
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Advocates argue that healthcare is a fundamental human right, and ensuring equal access to healthcare services is essential for the well-being of a society. They believe that healthcare should not be denied to anyone based on their ability to pay. Side: Pro
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I don't know from where you have fished the term ''free health care''. How can anything be free? Along with other handouts to life's losers the money for health-care must come from somewhere and that somewhere is the hard working taxpayer. Why should successful achievers pay for the healthcare of the layabout filth who have been fed from birth with the false narrative that they deserve a percentage of hardworking people's prosperity. There is no such thing as free health any more than there is ''a free lunch''. Side: Con
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I don't know from where you have fished the term ''free health care''. That's because you are incapable of visualising any part of past, present or future which is not dominated by capitalism. How can anything be free? Free is the natural state of things. Before capitalists told you they owned the banana trees you could go and pick bananas for free. Before capitalists told you they owned the deer, you could hunt deer for free. Yours is a level of ignorance which I personally find very offensive. Side: Pro
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