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by sneak 1972 days ago
> Healthcare should be free for all, it amazes me that this is not yet the case.

Why are you amazed? It's impossible to provide a valuable product or service for free without institutionalizing either slavery or robbery, and not everyone agrees on that trade-off.

Regardless of where you fall on the spectrum of opinion regarding this, it shouldn't come as a surprise that there are some people with philosophical objections to encoding nonconsensual interactions like slavery or robbery into the fabric of our society.

Many reasonable people agree that providing healthcare (or other important services) for "free" to all people is more important than not having the government rob people to pay for it.

Many reasonable people agree that that is a bridge too far, and that we shouldn't be robbing people, regardless of what the stolen money is used to do.

Both are sincere positions held by sane, reasonable, intelligent, empathetic people.