I think this is one of the more self indulgent pieces I have read. What if everyone like you decided to work part time and take a substantial drop in income for a better lifestyle, who would pay for the “free health care” you desire.

JFK once said “ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”. Sounds like you do not buy into his belief.

Society needs everyone to be fully engaged and contributing to the goods and services our economy produces. So whether we have universal health care or not, you should work full time and if it takes “health care” to cause you to do so, then it is one reason why health care should not be “free”.

I do believe that everyone that works full time and those that don’t because of a physical or mental limitation should get access to health care (not necessarily the same access that those who are paying for health care by working full time get). My bet is if you got the health care you think you are “entitled” to, that you would want the “housing” and “food”, you are entitled to.

Underlying these assumptions is that the government can provide these things out of thin air… but in fact, when the government provides something it is because others have paid into the government (though lately the government is providing far more than we the people are paying for… hence the nearly trillion dollar deficit).

In some respects, universal health care would not be solving problems in your example, but creating ones. Your reasoning explains why those countries that do offer universal health care are stagnating. People simply have less of a reason to produce goods and services. I would encourage you to go back and re-think how our country could provide universal health care in a way that encourages people to work harder and produce more.

For example, I do think the expanded Medicaid option of the ACA that provided health care for the working poor was a good thing, because it prevented people on Medicaid from losing their coverage. In your case, if you truly do not want to work much, but just enough to get some health care coverage, you should explore the criteria for getting that coverage or similar options offered by some states that did not participate in Medicaid expansion. But even in this instance, if you are young and strong enough to work full time, you owe it to your fellow Americans to do so. If you are disabled, that is a different story.