• silent2k@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Free healthcare does not exist. Someone will pay the bill. The bill may not be ridiculously inflated but someone pays.

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      2 years ago

      No shit, literally no one actually thinks this when they say “free healthcare” what they mean is that it’s free for the individual. As in, you don’t have to deplete your life savings because you had an injury.

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        2 years ago

        It is not free for the individual. People pay 800 Euro for healthcare per month regardless if they need it or not. Everyone contributes to paying the bills except the young and very poor.

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          That’s because those two groups CANT PAY THE TAX CAUSE THEY DONT HAVE ANY MONEY.

          Do you also hate public roads? After all your taxes go to fixing those even if you don’t own a car!

          We can play this dumb shit game all day.

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            2 years ago

            Read what i said. You assume shit because of voices in your head. I stated what is real without any judgment. You assume my opinion based pn a picture your brain painted based on nothing. I did not voice an opinion anywhere.

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          If you live in the UK and earn £100k per annum (which puts you in the highest tax bracket), then you are paying £460 per month for all social securities including healthcare. If you earn less, you pay less. Where did you get this €800 from? Your dumb ass?

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            2 years ago

            Your manners are pretty decent for earning so much money. Gratulations. Not everyone is living in the uk…

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      I’m not saying you’re wrong but you are being pedantic: aka the worst kind of right.

      It’s free in the same sense that a free school lunch is free: the exchange of money happened long before/after the actual goods or services get to the person who needs it

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        2 years ago

        They know. Most people that use that argument just want to make their position known, ie: socialism bad.

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        2 years ago

        I am not pedantic. I am precise. People need to understand that other people pay for their treatment and it does not just happen.

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          No one thinks that though so I’m not sure who you’re trying to preach to.

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            How? All I want is to replace the term free healthcare with socialized healthcare. All the other arguments here only exist because people assume opinions that where never voiced.

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          People know and understand that - that’s why countries with high tax rates aren’t seeing people throw tea in the water on a regular basis. They understand that they have representation and a share in the value that comes having those relatively high tax rates.