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OP, please correct this open-ended question if this is off-topic.

Who here can honestly be in favor of denying healthcare to those who can't afford it?

Seriously, that's a tax I'm happy to pay. I think.

I know you're out there...

In a previous debate on this, it became clear that a few posters would rather let someone die than have their healthcare paid through taxation.

Before poor diet and globalized disease, the only time death occurred was through injury.

Is anyone denied treatment of moderate physical injuries today?

Not in the socialised or partially socialised systems of the UK and US, no.

What about private charity hospitals and ones ran by churches?

They wouldn't easily be overwhelmed by everyone that needed treatment.

(You can't just do away with disease etc., they would still remain if you completely privatised medicine) .

Anyway, I must go to work. That tax won't pay itself.

The public hospitals of today are easily overwhelmed. The waiting lists are staggering.