Don't you think we would be paying more? Right now, how many don't go to the hospital that really don't need to. When it is free for everyone, and I am not paying for everyone just the ones that go and don't pay, then so many more people will go to get care for the smallest things. Driving the cost up and the taxes that will have to go with it. I am not seeing a consensus of people in a nation with national health care happy with the care they get. If history and other nations can't do it, how can we?