Yes nothing is free, GUEST. However, compare the following. In Canada, a family pays about $900 per year for free health care. A single pays about $600 per year. That's as close to free as it gets. (Incidentally, people who cannot afford the fees are still given treatment, whether that requires hospitalization or not. As Carol so astutely (as usual for her--got real brains that gal) pointed out, that one thing alone would make me a Socialist.

However, many of the other things I would vote for make me Religious--which I'm not; Right wing which I'm not; Left wing which I'm not; Fascist which I'm not, etc.

BM