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        Because I didn’t realize it was the same person in both. What a weird thing to get hostile about.

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          I’m hostile about your repeated and fallacious claim that healthcare isn’t free, when the truth is that the healthcare is free, but earning a salary isn’t. You’re charged for the earnings about certain thresholds, and you’re not charged for the healthcare. I contradicted you in only two of the many places you posted the same nonsense right wing talking points, and then you start complaining about my two versus your many.

          Username checks out.

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                Your country has publicly funded healthcare that is free at point of service.

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                  And nonsense. Healthcare is free in the UK. Roads are free in the UK, apart from a handful of toll roads and bridges.

                  Electricity is not free. I pay for that. Earning a salary is not free. I pay for that. Internet access is not free, I pay for that. But the healthcare is free. I can visit the doctor as many times as I like, I can have the most insanely expensive operation and I won’t get charged a penny.

                  At the theme park, the rides are free after you’ve paid admission. You can go on as many as you like until you decide to go home or the park closes. The food isn’t free, you have to pay for that. At the hospital, you don’t have to even pay admission, and you absolutely don’t have to be a taxpayer, all the healthcare is free. But the car parking and the food aren’t free (unless you’re an inpatient), you have to pay for those.

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                    Please see the sources I dropped in the other comment. The primary source of funding is general taxation. Which again I am in favor of.

                    The theme park is not free. You would say “we paid to go there.” You paid to go to the hospital Even if you aren’t charged for every individual thing you did while you were there. Your healthcare is not free.

                    You are doing a lot of maneuvering to bend the meaning of these words. But when you went to the hospital, you paid for it already.