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That “somebody” is the government in most developed places in the world. Except the United States which ties your healthcare to capitalism.

• pjlegato 4y ago
  "The government" has no money of its own. Everything "the government" does is paid for by private citizens in the form of taxes, without exception. These taxes are harvested from capitalist economic activity.
  • amanaplanacanal 4y ago
    I’m pretty sure everybody understands that.
  • vlovich123 4y ago
    Ummm… doesn’t the government literally print money? Sure you can’t just print infinite money as it devalues the currency, but I don’t think stating whether or not the government has money is a helpful framing. The government has an entirely different relationship to money. I could be wrong but taxes are more a way to keep value of the currency by creating some artificial scarcity. Sure, the government tries to keep a balance between taxation and expenditure to avoid devaluing the currency too much, but that’s not the same thing. In fact, governments regularly run deficits (spending money they don’t have) without collapsing. The only real risk is of a major currency devaluation because you managed the inflation incorrectly. Consider the “out” for the US debt ceiling being bandied about is minting a trillion dollar coin.
• em500 4y ago
  Nonsense, no government in the world pays for 24-7 in-house end of life care for a year, that would be crazy.
  • eh9 4y ago
    Canada does.