Regarding 'free healthcare':
It's not exactly fair to bash us Americans for objecting to 'free' healthcare. For one, almost every other non-third-world nation already has some major government healthcare; we can't just move away, this is pretty much the last place that really supports and protects individual freedom and choice in personal healthcare. Second, we have very real objections to 'free' healthcare, not the least of which being that it is badly misnamed. 'Free Healthcare' is not free; at the very least, it takes money from one group of people and gives it to another, and the government takes a hefty chunk out of those taxes in the form of governmental overhead. And this is a best-case-scenario; red tape is almost always present in any sort of government institution, slowing everything down and making things generally less efficient. Fourth, the 'free' aspect will almost always severely increase the quantity demanded, and the government is NOT good at predicting and adapting to market forces. There WILL be shortages, and there WILL be rationing, and while rationing in the free market leads to incentive to innovate and move resources, there is NO government incentive to do this. And sixth, government is a rather bad employer; as said previously, it has little incentive to allocate resources efficiently (indeed, it may be smarter for government administrators to overspend - they can bribe your friends in the form of buying supplies/services, and then ask for a bigger budget because "we can't do it on just this amount!), and it generally pays less than private sector jobs. So, as a summary:
Government provided healthcare, in the US, at least, would:
-Increase costs by means of government overhead.
-Increased red tape, slowing down pretty much everything involved to a greater or lesser extent.
-Increases in quantity demanded.
-Decrease in quantity supplied.
-Shortages.
-Badly paid doctors.
Mind, this is by no means a comprehensive list of economic problems, and doesn't even touch on the personal liberty aspects of it.
So yeah; we have plenty of reason to object to 'free' healthcare.
