My reply is "No good or service is ever free"

There are tons of holes in this brief explanation, It is intended to explain the situation to my 7 year old daughter and 11 year old son.

The doctor goes to College or university and pay $6,000+/year for four years of higher education. Then goes on to Medical School and pays another $10,000+/year for 5 addidtional years of post graduate education. So that's $75,000+ to get from high school to working. If as this Dr. as many do put these cost of education on loan He has to pay roughly $500+ per month to get out of debt in 15 years.

So the Dr. needs a place to live Let's say they're a bit chintzy on where they live that's another $1500 per month. Throw in food of $800 per month. No cable or frills 'cause they always work. We'll say they walk to work 'cause it's healthy.

Malpractice Insurance ranges from $32,000 to $116,000 or more per year. We'll take the Mean of $74,000 or $6200 per month.

So we've got $500 School loans + $6200 malpractice insurance + $1500 Rent and utilities + $800 food. Our entry level doctor costs $9000 a month. This could be a good doctor that takes as long as each patient needs or could be a doctor that see each patient 5 minutes so he makes his quota of 100 patients each day.

Now if all 301,270 doctors report by the department of labor cost an average of $9,000 a month thats $32.54 Billion per year. Keep in mind this is only the cost of the doctor, not the nurses, staff, facilities, pharmaceuticals,etc. The $32.54 billion gets divided up among those that pay taxes. It is estimated that 134 million returns are filed in the US, but 45% have no tax liability. So 74 million people/families pay taxes and thus would pay for the doctors.

My question to the scout would be "Since the Doctor actually costs something and is not free, Should 74 million working tax paying people/families pay for the healthcare of 45 million people/families that do not pay taxes and are not considered to be in poverty or poor?" I feel we as a nation should be charitable to those that truly are poor, so those of us that do pay taxes should shoulder the burden of the 34.3 million living in poverty in the United States.