Quote: There is no free ride. If you wish to create one, I don't want to fund it.....
Don't think any of the proponents of NHS are talking about a free ride for anyone though. More like a safety net for those who need it. Of course there will be abuses, just as there are numerous abuses with the current system. No matter what kind of system you put in place, there are people looking to play the system, period! But, to have a hard-working family, who is contributing to society and playing by the rules and all that, go broke and lose their lifes dreams, because one of their family members gets hit with a horrible sickness that incapacitates him/her or takes his life and leaves that family with tens or hundreds of thousands in medical bills, is that the right answer? Is being helped in that situation a "free ride"? Is that family guilty of not being personally responsible, even if they had insurance and it wasn't enough. It happens every single day to cancer victims, parents of special needs kids, etc... If your son or daughter has some kind lymphoma, and you have to give up your job to keep taking him/her to a research hospital to do anything you can to save your child, and it drains you financially, and then you're told by the insurance company that this treatment or that isn't covered because it's "experimental" (happened to my step dad with heart meds, even though it saved his life)? How is that right?
