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Originally Posted by Brother Bilo
Your health care system is free? Where is that at, I'd like to live in a country with free health care that doesn't come from insanly high taxes. Let me in on your secret.
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The term "free" is just a term - everything has a cost.
The difference is in what a government takes in tax revenue and them disperses that revenue back to it's taxpayers.
Including healthcare and other benefits does not generally mean "insanely high taxes". Most western countries, give or take a few, have taxation much the same as the US - and ALL provide "free" healthcare.
Hell.. we are currently based in a country which is ranked the same as the US annually on healthcare quality and offers "free" healthcare. The irony is personal taxation is almost non-existant and numbers of US folks (and others) come here for major operations to avoid the high costs within the US.
It really depends on what degree any government wants to wisely or otherwise spend their taxation revenue.