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by solidsnack9000 2653 days ago
FREE healthcare means that everyone is covered...

Sounds like universal healthcare, not free healthcare.

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Yes it is universal healthcare but one of the biggest complaints merely attacks the word "free".

The complain is that how can something be "free" when someone else has to pay for it. The definition of free literally means that someone else has to pay for it (externalities and labor to extract resources from the land count as payment). Real "free" anything where nobody pays anything doesn't exist. It's a strawman.