# Conservatives: What should we do about people who can't pay for medical care?

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**Created:** [March 31, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-what-should-we-do-about-people-who-cant-pay-for-medical-care/617350 "2012-03-31T03:36:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-what-should-we-do-about-people-who-cant-pay-for-medical-care/617350/2 "2012-03-31T04:30:43Z")

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Make health care free to anyone who wants it. But, the dollar amount of care which is covered on a free plan is only required to be X% of the national average of health care spending for someone in that age group, such that X is low enough to encourage sufficient numbers of people to buy paid insurance plans that the free plans are affordable for the insurance companies.

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