And I could live to be 100 thanks to all the free medical care you kids are going to buy for me.
The family speaks about its responsibilities to the farmers, the requests for money or more work, the cost of the free medical care the hacienda provides, the training they offer, the factory jobs they are trying to create in a new industrial estate.
Often forgotten by the proponents of free enterprise medical care is that risk is the key element of the system free-marketers hold so dear.
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The team of volunteers, set up two years ago, is touring the resort of Pattaya, bringing free medical care to the growing number of elephant encampments that cater to the tourist industry.
For the wages in an Australian prison are higher than those in a free Indonesia and the medical care is vastly greater.
The prospect of receiving free medical care draws expectant mothers from Mexico into U.S. Border States.
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One of the promises made to entice people into service was the lifetime guarantee of free medical care.
There are big compensations: housing, oil and basic foods are all hugely subsidised, and the government claims that Libya's free education and medical care are among the best in the world.
The government made good on the promise to provide them with their free military medical care until they reached 65 years of age.
What all this means is that the cost of medical care is subject to market forces that diverge strongly from the prices patients would pay in a free market.
Every parent is offered subsidised child care and free medical services and the state has extended these to all the working poor, whether single or married parents.
The most likely situation is that the grandparents are living comfortably on the national pension, plus their own savings, and enjoying almost free medical care, while planning to enroll in a nursing care program for which they will pay only a fraction of the cost.
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President Obama's worthy aims of universal and affordable medical care are achievable by bringing genuine free enterprise to the system, not more government.
All payments for qualified medical care and tuition also are free of gift tax if the donor pays the institution directly.
The only way to ensure adequate health care at reasonable prices is to allow medical care and health insurance to be provided by free markets, the same way other necessities of life have been provided cheap and in plenty since the beginning of the republic, be it food, shelter, clothing or transportation.
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Health care policy experts are increasingly recommending that medical school should be free for students that agree to forgo the specialties and become primary care physicians.
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Tens of thousands of people have joined a Twitter group expressing pride in the UK's National Health Service (NHS), which offers free taxpayer-funded medical care to all British residents, while leading politicians have spoken out in support.
In a ceremony at the White House's East Room, Clinton said the government lied to and betrayed hundreds of African-American men who thought they were getting free medical care.
Average health spending for individuals receiving free medical care was 32 percent higher than for those who had to pay a quarter of the bill out of pocket.
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