Socialized Healthcare Debate

The cluster focuses on debates about 'free' healthcare, emphasizing that socialized or universal systems are funded by taxes rather than being truly free, with comparisons to private systems like in the US.

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negrit • Sep 20, 2019 • View on HN

there is no such thing as free healthcare, someone has to pay for it...

nasalgoat • Aug 6, 2013 • View on HN

You don't have to pay for healthcare is the justification I believe.

adrianN • Oct 17, 2019 • View on HN

The point of socialized healthcare is that you pay even if you don't need it, so that other people can use it.

lostlogin • Sep 10, 2018 • View on HN

This sounds like a socialised healcare system by stealth.

gaius • Jul 19, 2010 • View on HN

There's no such thing as "free" - you mean healthcare paid for by their taxpayers. Who might not be keen on non-contributors showing up and using it...

iso1210 • Aug 2, 2020 • View on HN

Sounds a better future than your basic healthcare being solely determined by your bank balance. You can always go private in both cases.

mtbcoder • Jul 2, 2014 • View on HN

You are describing universal health care.

conanbatt • Feb 2, 2018 • View on HN

That tells you you should give money, not healthcare. Its a very different proposition!

darreninthenet • Jan 4, 2023 • View on HN

Unless you're in a country with a proper social healthcare system anyway...

nolok • Dec 26, 2013 • View on HN

He doesn't get free healthcare, he gets socialized healthcare that he pays for with taxes. It's not a gift out of magic, it's a political and economical choice.