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Old 26th January 2017, 12:30 AM   #364
Ambrosia
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Originally Posted by xjx388 View Post
Police: Security is one of the primary roles of the government. We all benefit from a ready and able police force regardless if you personally ever use them or not.
I feel exactly the same way about healthcare.

It's almost incomprehensible to me that people can feel the opposite of this, but then I grew up in a world with UHC and it's just what happens here.

The nation as a whole benefits from a 'free at the point of use' healthcare system with the government running the system. Ours is very far from perfect, but I'll take what we have over the USA system hands down.

The single biggest benefit to UHC in my opinion is that it keeps the prices for healthcare in check. Anyone arguing that the "free market" is better at doing that needs to explain the discrepancy between healthcare costs in the USA and every other developed nation that has UHC available.
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