should healthcare be free?

Not necessarily free, but it should be universally available.

Government's job is to protect its citizens. Inadequate health care is more of a threat to most of our citizens than invading armies or terrorists, and many governments have considered health-care to be a citizen's right for the past 100 years.

If private industry, cannot, or will not, provide a necessary service to citizens who need it at an affordable cost, it is governments job to come up with a way to provide it. That is the strategy.

Whether this is accomplished through private providers, insurance, means tested subsidies or free government owned clinics is a tactical matter on which honest people can disagree.

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Should Healthcare Be Free

If anything should be free it should healthcare. Without it we would all be dead. Is that what you want? Why would make something silly be for free like electronics or airplanes when healthcare costs so much money? And especially when the rich are getting richer. That is not acceptable in America. Not today. Not ever while I'm on the watch. Sorry republicans, your time is over and it shall not come back.

Let me give you an example. A family illegally just crossed the border in the back of a truck. Too bad, they suffocated during the trip. Only their three year old girl survives, but needs to be rushed to a hospital. Now what would you do?

Check her pockets first?

Deny her access because she is trying to benefit from YOUR taxdollars?

Contact her embassy and ask if they could come over and take her back to her own country (whichever that may be) because you don't want to pay for this mess?

Or would you say: get her some help, NOW!

If you mean free at the point of access (as free healthcare would have to be funded through taxation) then that is up to the people of a nation to decide.

In the UK, people want it to be free at the point of delivery. In the USA, the people do not want it to be so.

Is it morally acceptable to force one person to work and produce on the behalf of others?

It is morally acceptable to protect the rights of people's liberty, life and property from another individual. However, it is not morally acceptable to take another person's liberty (Work) or property (Money) to give another person life.

Life, liberty and property should be equally protected by government. For your property is nothing more than the product of your liberty. And your liberty is nothing more than how you choose to use your life.

No, but it shouldn't come out of the patient's pocket. It should be paid for by insurance. It's not right to make doctors and nurses work for nothing, especially when they have gone to school for so many years.

yes. it should be free....no,we shouldnt have to bankrupt hard working americans for healthcare as well.

yes. preventative health care. if that is taken care of then less people will develop serious problems later.