Reply #5: Tens of millions in the US are without health care. [View All]

[Don1]

You have to be very, very poor to get it for free. But if you are poorer than middle class but do not have a low enough income to receive it, then you are out of luck. Now, even if you do qualify for free health care, every doctor isn't going to see you. I think these two reasons probably explain why low income is correlated with poor health.

Additionally, if you are middle class then you get the health care at an expensive corporatized rate. The US spends on average 15% of income on health care while in industrialized countries health care costs are much less. Here is an example: free health care costs Finlanders on average 8% through taxation.

But getting back to the point of the op, health care is a necessity. It is not a commodity to be traded, to be kept from those who cannot afford it, or to be given better quality to the elite.

Health care is a part of the right to life.