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I’m not saying you’re wrong but you are being pedantic: aka the worst kind of right.

It’s free in the same sense that a free school lunch is free: the exchange of money happened long before/after the actual goods or services get to the person who needs it

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I am not pedantic. I am precise. People need to understand that other people pay for their treatment and it does not just happen.

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No one thinks that though so I’m not sure who you’re trying to preach to.

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How? All I want is to replace the term free healthcare with socialized healthcare. All the other arguments here only exist because people assume opinions that where never voiced.

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People know and understand that - that’s why countries with high tax rates aren’t seeing people throw tea in the water on a regular basis. They understand that they have representation and a share in the value that comes having those relatively high tax rates.

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They know. Most people that use that argument just want to make their position known, ie: socialism bad.

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Why are they using wrong language and disregarding peoples contributions then?

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Okay what would you call it?

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No, we also talk about it because it stops working when people don’t treat it right. In Germany the system will very likely change because it is not affordable anymore. Politicians are already discussing things like people should have to pay the first few thousands of healthcare costs by themselves.

Yeah I know, perhaps you might say thats still better than in America. But to treat it like healthcare is free and grows on trees is just false. But because a lot of people treated it that way it’s now going downhill.

Talking about that doesn’t make you anti-socialism. It’s really discerning how people on social media only accepts discussion that follows the overall cheers. You aren’t against something just because you want to discuss it.

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