Brewdomia wrote:KiloMikeAlpha wrote:Lines. Waiting.
When something is free, people will line up for it. Healthcare and the dollars to support it are limited. When you give away a limted resource, you run out.
Try this. Bake 4 dozen cookies. Take them to your local movie store and sit out front with a table. Put 2 dozen cookies on the table and put a "free cookies" sign on the table. Observe. People will come by and grab them by the handfuls, and they will be gone in like 3 minutes.
Now, take away the "free cookie" sign and replace it with "Cookies $2 each". See how long those cookies last.
For the lines and waiting, this is not going to be Canada where they have banned insurance companies so your argument is mute.
Nor is there any proposal for it to be "free".
A better experiment would be to offer fire services. How many people set fire to their houses? Aside from intentional fires, how many fires total? Now eliminate fire services. Do the number of fires go up or down? The answer is pretty obvious.