Why not? It is free.
Oh, you work, you have better things to do.
We have it in our not so wealthy country. People don't really go there only because it's free (if you'll accept actual feedback). Some pensioners yearning for attention and a human touch. Statistically irrelevant.
Without saying anything offensive about Americans, I will say that I see you as people who are harder on taking a step back and looking at their country and themselves in a more objective manner (as much as that is possible, not expecting miracles).
You seem to echo some opinions coming from people who get to directly benefit and make money on tearing safety net, but you accept their opinions as valid and you repeat them. I find that strange. They don't have your best well-being at heart.
You also seem hung on this notion of other people paying, but the more people that pay, the less expensive it is. No small piggy bank will ever achieve what big piggy bank will. In other words imagine having to build your own road where ever you need to go (as a deliberate exaggeration for the sake of this little chat).
Also, what I see (or at least what seems to me to be the case) you have a really antique view of the debt. You still think if there's debt, there must be some sort of lack of money. Debt is a product of financial agencies equal to any other. It is being deliberately produced and traded with in the market. No hedge funds would make the news at the beginning of this century if there wasn't for the trading with CDOs.
Also, what I find unjust is that in your medical institutions you already have a lot of treatments and cures available as a result of big funds coming from big state piggy banks. Would you agree to renonce all of them and use only what is achieved exclusively through private funding? I thought so.
Besides, as universal health works you still have direct access to findings from all European big piggy banks medical institutions, so you're still profiting from something you attack.
Health is constant research and devours money. Illnesses, sicknesses, diseases of all sorts are on a constant move and permanently exotic. No exclusive club can fight them on its own.
If you're interested, this is how you look to the rest of the world; do you know the metaphor of closing the door behind you? It says once you're in from the cold, you close the door and start preaching there's no room for the rest. Before you're in from the cold, you ask for the door to be open and accept all those in need.
That's how it looks to us; your ass is covered so let's devise an elaborate econimical discourse we can wrap our selfishness in.
