Two points:

1. There hasn't been free health here for a while, but since the 80s I have had 3 major operations, 2 to save my life, which I either paid nothing for, or a token fee of some hundreds of dollars. No way did I over show anything but gratitude to doctors and nurses, who in turn were outstanding people, motivated by public service. I also saw many other patients in similar situations. No-one ever hit, bit, fought with or spat on any nurse or any doctor. Every one was well-behaved.

2. Perth, capital of Western Australia, has an extensive network of free public transport

For 3 weeks during my stay in February, I used these services regularly. Not once did I, or anyone else (with two exceptions) abuse the drivers, other passengers, litter the bus, or take undue advantage of the system in any noticeable way whatsoever.

(The exceptions were 2 young US male visitors who drunkenly abused some of the other passengers and scared one of the female ones.)

Your thread, as too many of your other posts, along with the original link, purports to be informative and educational while really being little more than ideologically driven. I don't know much about the state of welfare, and the health system, in the US. Maybe great reforms are needed for the sake of efficiency. What I do know is that whatever that post reports, is a slice of reality specially picked out of a much bigger and different pie - chosen to suit partisan and ideological convictions.

Free inner city transport works, and free health for lower-paid or unemployed people is an absolute must in a civilized society. That is my ideology - and more importantly, my experience.

Maybe it can be paid for minimizing high-end tax fraud and by a more careful government allocation and distribution of existing resources.