Fuck my country!

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...if they simply refuse to pay it they are prosecuted like anyone else who refuses to pay their bills.

That amounts to receiving an endless lifetime supply of birdcage liners and hamster bedding. There is no such thing as debtors prison here, I don't know about your country. What 'procecution' is there for a deadbeat debtor? Get on the bad credit list? Oh boy!

...but it'll go a damn long way to solving it so people who care about their health are not constantly forking out for people who don't.

Actually I don't see that. I'd be more of a case of the insurance companies not forking more. I'd bet a dime to a dollar your individual rates would not decrease but the insurance companies would be turning a more tiddy profit.


For me, I'll just keep getting carted into hospitals when I fuk myself up mountain biking or whatever, they'll fix me up and I'll file their bills in File 13.
And, once again, I will thank my Uncle Sam and the American Taxpayer.

Healthcare based on capitalism, as you suggest with private healthcare, would see me die.
Socialised healthcare, as I would advocate for, is based on..... health. Making people whole again.

I just wouldn't be very comfortable with the Ferengi in charge of my healthcare.