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Well, it is.

• swarnie_ 9y ago
  I'm happy paying for schools despite having no children because it benefit society as a whole. Can we not apply the same thinking here?
  • fatwa 9y ago
    That was not the point. The point is that universal healthcare is taking money from my pocket and giving it to someone else.
    • maxxxxx 9y ago
      If you ever have a serious illness or an accident money will be taken out of someone's pocket and given to you. Unless you don't have insurance and refuse treatment.
    • dmode 9y ago
      You can qualify everything as a "handout" then. Like private car insurance, which is taking money from you and paying to a driver who had an accident.
    • Mouse47 9y ago
      Maybe I'm missing the point too, but can't that description be applied to insurance itself? So what's your point?
• ceejayoz 9y ago
  It's not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OECD_health_expenditure_per_capita_by_country.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OECD_health_expenditure_p... We spend about the same as other OECD countries in public healthcare funding, plus we spend a bunch more privately, for an overall healthcare spend that's the highest per-capita in the world, and outcomes that aren't as good.