I think “Millennial Dad” missed the point entirely. It should be “I need some candybar please” and the answer is "It’s cheaper for society to band together to give you this candybar then to produce an invoice which you can’t pay, forcing you to need more candybars, come back here again and get a bill for 10 times as many candybars, which you also can’t pay for, but ultimately society will need to pay for ".
Healthcare is a service which benefits the public good, not a consumable with random pricing arrangements.
I get the point, but we need to use a better analogy to defend it.
