How much do you pay for others health? Many people believe that health care should be free for everybody. Do you agree with this? What do we mean when call health care “free”? Do doctors, nurses and other health workers deserve salary for their work? Do people want to be tested using the most modern and accurate equipment? So, medicine is an expensive service, and someone must pay for it. There is free health care for everyone in my country. Let’s look at our health system from two sides: from working person, who earn enough and benefit recipient, who isn’t able for some reasons to earn enough money for treatment. In my opinion a working person isn’t very happy to pay for a service he doesn’t use. When you work hard you can’t afford to waste time on your own treatment. So, you see the therapist a couple of times for ten years. If you don’t have “free” health care you will pay around 3500 rubles for these two visits. But if you have one, your costs will be about 1 million rubles, which have accumulated over ten years from your income. It’s too much for couple of visits. Let’s look for situation from benefit recipient. Elderly people and people with disabilities need good treatment. But have they? No. They have old equipment, long waiting time, wrong diagnostics, low quality drugs. This is because centralized management isn’t effective way to spend money. I believe that health care should be paid by people. And people should choose clinics and doctors. Such systems used in some countries. In addition, each working person should pay a small contribution to the health fund. And authorities should use it to return people some part of their health cost. The amount of return should be determined by the level of income. Poor people should get 100% refund and reach people much less. What is your opinion?