I shall explain something to you, you filthy frenchman and your socilist 'utopia'.
In Australia we have largly 'free' healthcare. As in if I was needing emergency attention I could go to an ED and get treated at no charge.
I could go see my own doctor for about $30 a visit. Which to most people is pretty reasonable.
Now what I take fucking exception to is this. We have hundreds if not thousands of people in this country with dozens of self-inflicted health problems.
Type 2 diabetees, hypertension, obesity, drug abuse and ethanol abuse, liver failure, AKD, so on and so forth.
So the process for someone being diagnosed consists of them seeing their personal Dr, being told what they have, what they need to do to manage/cure it and the contact details of specific services to deal with that condition, such as National Diabetes Hotline etc.
Now to the socilist that might seem fine and dandy. You feel people have a RIGHT to health care. No matter what they have done.
I shall share a story to you. I am a nursing student. I was on clinical placement last year at a public hospital.
It was a medical/palliative ward. Now what most public palliative patients when admitted will do is this; they try and see how much free shit they can get. Specifically, S8 drugs. These are drugs of high addiction potential and have very serious side effects. But they don't care. They are in pain. Why are they in pain?
Well because they have been an IV drug user for the past 20 yrs, drink 4 bottle of whiskey a day, eat around 15000 calories a day and haven't seen their feet in 5 years oh and also have type 2 diabetes.
So what the nursing staff are MANDATED to do, is make sure this piece of shit parasite is well fed, sleeps well, takes all his medication, can take a shit, is pissing properly etc etc.