Hey Americans: Why are y'all against free healthcare?
Why are you happy for your taxes to go to firemen and police and roads but when it comes to universal healthcare you can't stand the idea of putting money in the pot?
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I’m for single payer which is not free. The concept is taxpayers get Medicare which they pay for and no taxpayers get Medicaid which they don’t pay for. Instead of those who pay paying insurance companies whether through their employer paying, AFA or private, the money is used more efficiently by elimiminating insurance company overhead and high executive salaries and profits that go to shareholders. In addition, one set of claims procedures would likely be better for health care consumers than all the different insurance company exclusions that making getting care difficult and expensive. To sum up, not free, we pay for single payer however there are a lot of advantages listed above.
This makes a lot of sense. Insurance companies and their various profit motives is NOT the right way to handle something which in a nation like America should be a given. (Call it a right if you like) And failure to maintain the health of the population later becomes a burden on the community with chronic disease and long term infirmity.@jackjjackson
