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by satchlj 902 days ago
If by "free" you mean that taxpayers payed huge amounts of money then sure...
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What is wrong in funding everyone's health through taxes? I paid a lot of them for years, although living a quite healthy life, then one day everything changed, and in just a couple years I had to get covid vaccines, a vertebral stabilization after an accident, then two stents after a heart attack. All for free. So far, my healthcare taxes have been the best possible investment.
It was like $30 a dose or less. Super cheap. Egad.
Not to mention saved significant hospital costs as people were unwell but not sick enough to require more intensive and expensive treatment.