Do people 'deserve' universal health care?

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Gagged Louise, whom I'm becoming more enthralled by with every post she makes, says it all. What more can I add?

There are leeches in the "lower" levels of all forms of society. But they are relatively few in number. As I said in another post, very few people actually want to be a burden on society, and those who are have usually fallen on hard times through no fault of their own, and will do almost anything to get back on thier feet again as quickly as possible. Dole is rarely sufficient to give anyone much more than a basic standard of living, even in welfare states.

No. I'm sorry to say it, but people who reject the provision of social assistance to the needy on the basis that it encourages the indolent to demand more and give less are wilfully blinkered if not totally blindfolded, and argue out of selfishness rather than any morally defensible position.

I should also add that any society that loses its working classes will cease to exist much more quickly than if the middle classes disappeared. It would probably benefit from the loss of its upper/ruling classes, because it could easily replace the jobs they provided by forming co-operatives or state-owned corporations. But I'm not arguing for communism, simply social conscience in the form of a health service accesible to all who need it.