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Originally Posted by pax
Whether it's a tax or an upfront payment, you're paying money for your healthcare
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No educated person really thinks health care is free either under a socialized system or a free market system. The critiques of socialized health care are usually in regards to the efficiency in which government allocates resources. The free market provides well stocked grocery stores, more reliable cars, and pretty much anything else under the sun for cheaper than a centralized system. There are very few things that become more efficient as a result of pooling money in government and reallocating it rather than letting people make their own individual decisions so it would be a fallacy to assume that $x amount of spending is going to yield the same net benefit under either system.