Should healthcare be free?

@oscar6 (1938)
United States
April 14, 2011 2:28pm CST
Here in America, we have to pay for our healthcare yet places like Cuba and France have free medical care. Do you think healthcare should be free in every country? why or why not?
5 responses
@petersum (4522)
• United States
14 Apr 11
It is nice to know that you can go into any hospital and get treated without money changing hands first. But free? No it isn't! We pay for it through social security even if we don't actually use any services. And it can be damned expensive, especially for self-employed persons.
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@Dominique25 (9464)
• United States
14 Apr 11
I think healthcare should be free. There are so many different things that we have to pay for and that keeps going up we should be able to get something free. Having healthcare be free would be wonderful. There are so many things that are really backwards that needs to be worked on. We pay for so many different things that really the money we have never really is ours.
• United States
14 Apr 11
It would be nice to have free healthcare but then how would it sustain itself for the overall treatments. Ours regardless of a person considering it free someone is paying it from deducted taxes. Someone like me who has always contributed towards taxes and paid well over $300 a month just for my own mediocre insurance. It certainly would be nice but with the high costs to sustain I do not see it ever happening.
@tkonlinevn (6345)
• Vietnam
18 Apr 11
I think that healthcare should be free. Because there are many poor people don't have enough money for treatments if they're sick. Fee for healthcare is too high now.
@terryt52 (243)
• United States
14 Apr 11
Health care is never free we will be taxed for it. If you researched the countries with free health care and the results of the care they receive you will think twice. Obama Care is exactly what these countries have. You have to wait your turn even if you have cancer. The government dictates what care you receive. They will also need extra government workers to implement the free health care. I would rather pay and get better health care when needed. However we do need to regulate the health insurers better and open it up across state lines. We already pay for free health care to alot of people.