Yep having too much government funded stuff takes away personal responsibility, which is something that gets grossly overlooked in this day and age of government intervention. For example in Australia we have the medicare levy which is 2% of your taxable income, then on top of that if you're single and earn over 90k a year without having private health insurance your medicare levy is 3-3.5% Then if you don't want private health insurance before the age of 30 and take it out later in life you pay an extra 2% on the premium for every year past 30 you didn't have private health cover. For someone like me who takes their health seriously and is as healthy as possible with no underlying conditions, these rules are extremely annoying. There should be some safety net for people who can't provide for themselves but government providing for everyone creates a dependent society