You compared free high-end foods to free healthcare, which frankly just seems bizarre.
Nobody wants to use healthcare. Even when I lived in the UK, and I could have visited the doctor for free every single day if I had chosen to, I did not. Neither did I ever hear of anyone ever doing that or anything close to it.
Having lived in both the US and the UK, I haven't changed my habits. I visit the doctor when I feel I really need to. The only difference is that in the US, an insurance bureaucrat then sends me a letter telling me they're not paying up because <insert random excuse here>.
And in the US, you get the privilege of paying for the paper on which the denial letter was printed... and, to make it better, the bureaucrat's salary.
If you buy private health insurance, you're literally paying the salary of the asshole who pores over people's medical records looking for reasons to deny care (e.g. undisclosed insomnia prescription from 1982 as a "pre-existing condition").
Just to play devil's advocate, here's a mind bender for you: we should be grateful to that asshole.
The insurance company is paying his salary because it costs them less than would the care that he manages to deny. If he didn't exist, the insurance company's costs would increase. This means that insurance premiums would have to increase. Whether you buy your insurance directly, or it's deducted from your paycheck, or your employer pays for it in full, that increased cost of insurance premiums would trickle down to you in the end.
Just to play devil's advocate, here's a mind bender for you: we should be grateful to that asshole.
Until you or I get cancer, that is.
Last I checked, the probability of you and I having at least one life-threatening health problem in the next 100 years was pretty close to 1.0.
What's actually happening, regarding that asshole, is that you're paying 95% premiums for 85% care. It gets worse than that, because the 15% being shaved off is at the high-cost end, which is precisely where you need your insurance.
You compared free high-end foods to free healthcare, which frankly just seems bizarre.
Nobody wants to use healthcare. Even when I lived in the UK, and I could have visited the doctor for free every single day if I had chosen to, I did not. Neither did I ever hear of anyone ever doing that or anything close to it.
Having lived in both the US and the UK, I haven't changed my habits. I visit the doctor when I feel I really need to. The only difference is that in the US, an insurance bureaucrat then sends me a letter telling me they're not paying up because <insert random excuse here>.