Eh I’m not sure on the education piece of healthcare even. For education I mean that’s a no-brainer controversial one. Is it worth it for society to spend resources to train more writers or art history majors? Not sure it is. At least it isn’t obvious to me.
While I’m a proponent of UHC as well I think we do have to look at why people need healthcare. Is it because they are obese and just don’t care? If so more healthcare isn’t a good thing unless they also change underlying habits which lead to the need for healthcare in the first place.
And also obviously someone is paying for these things. “Laughs in the rest of the developed world” is a really immature comment, especially as we start to see universities in that developed world start to sneak back in fees for things. There is no free lunch. Everything costs something. Maybe we are taxing billionaires or w/e is in vogue right now but it still costs money. By making it “free” we also separate out useful market elements - like instead of going to school to be an art history major maybe for free, maybe you should bear some of the burden for a less useful degree than say computer science where there is a need, or plumbing or electricians.
“Liberal arts educations are valuable etc” yea read a book or use the Internet. If you’re not willing to do that freely on your own a university isn’t helping you there and I really doubt the costs are justified.