How come there isn't free health care in U.S?

I am asking as someone who has grown up with an NHS system, I pay a small amount extra tax, and I get free health care, yet from what I read a lot of Americans do not like this idea, even when the health care system in the US is terrible compared to...

If Americans are unhappy with paying thousands of dollars for health insurance. They why are they not wanting to change to a tax pay version of health care. It works for us here in Canada? I am curious to know what are the issues people have with Obama...

I mean, where can we go? Everything that defined America will have disappeared. We vote, we protest, we tea party, we boycott, but we still seem to be heading towards gay marriage and universal health care. Gay marriage and health care are a violation...

Ever since I signed up for health insurance from Blue Cross Blue Shield, I'm constantly getting junk mail from other health related stuff in the mail. Is this legal? Can I stop it?

"Hospitals in border cities, including Detroit, are forging lucrative arrangements with Canadian health agencies to provide care not widely available across the border." http://freep.com/article/20090820/BUSINESS06/ 908200420/1319/ "Newfoundland...

will someone address the issue of national health care for all. pros and cons. Then maybe we can send this to our government. Also what did you think about Michael Moore's movie " SICKO"

The director of the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that the health care reform legislation would cost, over the next ten years, $115 billion more than previously thought, bringing the total cost to more than $1 trillion. http://blogs.abcnews...

I am here to ask why the politicians are not stopping the southern irish coming to use our health care and resources every week i see hundreds of southerners coming up and going into our hospitals and doctors and using the nhs to get free things i'm...