>What they deplore is the idea that some "freeloader" could benefit from their taxes. But the ironic thing is that private insurance also works through "freelo

>What they deplore is the idea that some "freeloader" could benefit from their taxes. But the ironic thing is that private insurance also works through "freeloading": you pay your premiums so that somebody else in the insurance pool can get treatment. It's just that some people prefer their intermediary be a private company which will also skim profits off top than their government.