Canada has socialized health care, not universally free healthcare. They pay for it in taxes.
*gives a funny look*
Health care gets paid for by someone, one way or another.
In a communist system, everything can be considered to come from taxes, since all things pass in to the control/ownership of the government and then are distributed.
In DF, all dwarfs pay 100% taxes to the fort and are given what they need in food, drink, and lodging by the fort (at least, until the economy kicks in)
the economy as it stands now in DF is basically corrupt communism where a select few (the legendaries and nobles) can take what they want, the favored (those given jobs in industry you use) have what they need, and everyone else (basically anyone who's a hauler or otherwise idles a lot) are lucky to have even what they need.
any government run health care is basically paid for by the people who pay taxes to that government, whether it's a doctor and skilled laborers who pay with their labor to cause the healthcare or the tax payer contributing money.
Toady, is it possible we might see insurance or mutual aid societies in the future, where dwarfs can get together and help each other pay for expensive things (like, say better off family members allowing their poorer relatives to use their accounts or a group of farmers pooling their money to help pay the medical costs of an injured farmer)I think it would be cool to have dwarf family connections count for something more than whether or not you are going to be getting a tantrum spiral.
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