Who should pay for health care?


	Who should pay for health care?

wes50

8-12-2009 9:56 AM

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health care, health insurance

wes50 says:

We need a good alternative that allows everyone to have affordable insurance. Doesn't making that insurance free seem like the best approach?

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8-13-2009 6:04 PM

Satchamo

There is no such thing as "free" insurance. Somewhere along the line, someone has to pay for this "free" insurance, whether in sales taxes, income taxes, more social security taxes, more medicare taxes, taxes on vices, taxes on obesity, the tab has to be paid.

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