I don’t know how expensive top surgery is, but this does align with my view that all surgery needs to be f r e e

if it's all free, what do the surgeons get paid?

“Free” = taxpayer-funded. In other words, surgeons will be paid out of the same pot of money that already pays the salaries of our military, and many other kinds of employees.

Then why try and paint it as free? Isn't that lying?

Yes

So why false advertise? Is the product not actually good enough to present honestly?

Anyone with half a brain understands there’s no way to make a health care system and all of the highly skilled employees required to run it cost zero dollars. That’s an absurdity.

However, it’s not misleading in some ways. A single-payer healthcare system would be “free” in the following ways:

—Free at the point of access. No more “wallet biopsies.”
—Free for those who can’t afford to pay taxes.
—Free in that there will be no more personal liability for health care bills. In other words: No more medical bankruptcies, no more robbing your retirement accounts (or your children’s college funds), because you were struck by an unlucky health situation. Health will never ruin your finances.

But if you’re a billionaire, you’ll fund the system with your taxes. If you and your spouse make $600,000+ per year, same. If you sold stock and made a bunch of capital gains, same. If you inherited millions and millions of dollars, same.

It’s granting universal access, and distributing the costs of the system upward.

Not to be harsh, but if someone is purposefully not taking care of their body, I'm not paying for the medical bills that ensue from their poor choices. None of those countries listed have near as much obesity as we have, so it's not really comparable.

You can’t moralize every illness like that. Genetic disorders, events like pandemics, accidents, things that just start to happen to you at a certain age.

I suppose you could design a system with obesity, smoking, drug use, drinking exclusions. But why? Are we going to go down the Chinese path of social credit scores?

These other countries have found a way to do it, and with a lower GDP per capita. We can too, all that is lacking is the willingness to take on the interests that profit from the waste and redundancy and frankly profiteering in our current system.

Considering it's such a prevalent problem in the US, yeah, I kinda can for a good portion of them.
Besides, there's a thing called charity, but I'm sure that concept is totally foreign to you.

Another thing they dropped the ball on recently

well i guess then being a surgeon would be a voluntary job

“Free” is just shorthand for taxpayer-funded.