There’s no such thing as a free lunch? True. Not even with the natural abundance in the Garden of Eden as described in Genesis was lunch totally free. Adam and Eve had to go get it to have it. Lunch didn’t come to them.

Just as true, there’s no such thing as free government.

That simple, immutable, inescapable fact is a major factor in why there is no such thing as free healthcare nor such a thing as a free lunch. Nor free anything else.

The cost of nation’s governments is operating overhead that must be added to the operating overhead of the businesses and institutions that make up the nation’s economy. When governments pretend to pay for anything, what they are actually doing is routing the price of the thing back through the government as additional cost-of-government, adding additional administrative cost on the way through, and then dumping it out through the nation’s systems of taxation to be added back to the operating costs of the supply chains that produce, distribute and sell those things that governments are pretending to pay for.

If a government takes money from Peter so that politicians can then be able to pretend that the government is providing for Paul and/or Pauline then the amount taken from Peter will and must be greater than the amount that is provided for Paul and/or Pauline. If Peter is producing, distributing or selling the things that the government is pretending to provide to Paul or Pauline in order to earn the money that the government is taking from Peter, then the cost of the taxes that Peter is paying will be embedded in the prices that are being paid by the government or by Paul and/or Pauline. Thus, as a for instance, some of the cost of the Social Security system is embedded in the prices that are paid for medical care as well as vice versa–the cost of Medicare and Medicaid is embedded in the prices that are paid for things that are purchased using Social Security benefits.

Then the politicians–predictably–whine, bitch and moan about the cost of medical care increasing at a high rate when it is the regenerative cost feed-back loops that were created by the degenerating socialistic design of the Medicare and Medicaid systems that are driving ever increasing cost into the healthcare delivery system as well as into the delivery systems from which we purchase everything that is purchased.