• moriquende@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Health care should be free for the simple reason that it’s inhumane to deprive a person of it just because they can’t afford it. It’s a basic human right. It works in many other countries. Maybe rich people and corporations should stop getting tax breaks and your government should reduce a bit the amount spent on the military.

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      Jupp, healthcare should be free for the individual in need. And at the same time it is not “free” because the costs get compensated by taxes. At least that’s how it works in Germany, where i am from. So the point of the person you answered to stands: yes, free for individual, covered by state/insurance which gets the money from someone else.

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        The person I replied to literally said it shouldn’t be free because it may increase their taxes. So it was implied that they meant it should not be free for the individual, meaning the individual should be expected to have to pay for their own medical treatment when needed.