Others think that people will use the public system once word spreads that it offers good, free care.
Andrew Harrop, head of policy for Age Concern and Help the Aged, said he welcomed the commitment to free care.
Through education, training, and modern surgical methods, ORBIS has provided free care to over 4 million people in over 85 countries.
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CanSupport, in New Delhi, provides free care for terminally ill cancer patients.
As a result of the campaign she says 180 doctors in the state have offered to provide free care to women with unintended pregnancies.
Pamela Ward, a retired NHS overseas manager, said in many cases hospitals assume that patients referred by NHS GP surgeries qualify for free care.
Nevertheless, the woman, who has since died, was denied free care.
At this year's Labour party conference, Prime Minister Gordon Brown unveiled a headline-grabbing policy to give the most in need free care - as happens in Scotland.
Thousands of uninsured and underinsured people showed up for free care, and many were treated in the section of the county fairgrounds where barnyard animals are usually kept.
Now, only those officially granted refugee status receive free care.
They get free care paid for by you and me.
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Ahead of the referendum, Ms Sturgeon warned key policies delivered under devolution, like free care for the elderly, were under threat in the event of a vote against independence.
Rather than rely on government handouts or charity, Aravind's founders use a tiered pricing structure that charges wealthier patients more (for example, for fancy meals or air-conditioned rooms), letting the firm cross-subsidise free care for the poorest.
Conservative spokesman Lord Freud said moves to guarantee free care to the 280, 000 most needy elderly and disabled people in their own homes were "political point-scoring" and would be paid for "by our children and probably our grandchildren".
It was, after all, 2002 Mitt Romney who often highlighted the inefficiency of emergency room care as the sole option for uninsured Massachusetts residents, allowing them to get free care while those who are insured are left to pay the bill.
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James McCormick from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation stressed the importance of "light touch, low cost preventative interventions" in the community to avoid hospitalisation, as emergency care for over 70's was four times more expensive than the entire bill for free care for the elderly in Scotland.
Schools, clinics and other public services had been withered by corruption, and Mr Sankoh's promises of free health care, free education and a fair distribution of diamond revenues sounded appealing.
The MSPs who made the decisions on free personal care, free concessions and free tuition fees were from all the main parties at different times, so it's not as political an observation as it might look in the current debate.
Mr Burnham added that "systematic improvement" was needed to enable the government to fulfil its pledge of establishing a "national care service" to provide free personal care to elderly people in their homes.
The obvious one is how to pay for a wish list including continuing commitments to universal provision of free personal care for the elderly, free prescription, free bus passes for older people, plus another three years of freezing council tax and compensating universities for the gap left when England gets a lot more tuition fee income and Scottish ones don't.
The budget includes provision for 21 extra police officers, maintaining free personal care for the elderly and providing free breakfast clubs in 24 schools in deprived areas.
For example, the Affordable Care Act has expanded coverage of free preventive care (including HIV screening and STD prevention counseling for adults at higher risk) to an estimated 3.8 million AAPIs with private insurance.
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Many of the provisions on the Affordable Care Act are specifically designed to improve care and lower costs - like providing free preventive care and avoiding hospital readmissions.
If this reform becomes law, all new insurance plans will be required to offer free preventive care to their customers starting this year -- free check-ups so that we can catch preventable illnesses on the front end. (Applause.) Starting this year, there will be no more lifetime or restrictive annual limits on the amount of care that you can receive from your insurance companies.
With this reform package, all new insurance plans would be required to offer free preventive care to their customers starting this year -- so free check-ups to catch preventable diseases on the front end.
Workers who are laid off will continue to benefit from free health care and education, heavily subsidised housing and transport and modest rations of free food.
And Abu Wali has managed to get the displaced and orphans free health care.
That's the system of free health care funded by taxpayers that's available to all Britons.
This year, all new insurance plans will be required to offer free preventive care.
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