I pay for roads and i dont have a car, i don't get a rebate if i walk. Etc.
Bad teeth impacts you and you alone.
On the other hand, your nation, state, city, employer, etc are all run by people who were educated in this country. You directly benefit from roads every time you buy goods from any business, etc.
Do you think disease ridden population carrying ringworms earns well, shows up for work reliably and are good customers?
If healthcare was left to free market completely, we'd see return of The Plague!
> If healthcare was left to free market completely
What evidence of this do you have? Because, in the US, healthcare largely is free market and we do not have the return of any plague or anything similar. In fact, it's free markets that bore out the vaccination the world is using to fight the current pandemic.
Part of the reason healthcare is so expensive in the US is because people cannot afford to get preventative care and so they wait until they are basically dying and then go to the emergency room. If they couldn’t afford $100 to see a doctor before, they can’t afford the $100k the hospital will bill them so they just go bankrupt and the hospital loses it all. The hospital covers these expected delinquent accounts by charging more to people with insurance. The insurance covers these higher costs by charging higher premiums. You are already paying for other people, you’re just doing it the expensive way because there’s so many for-profit organizations in between you and those other people.
I pay insurance for my car (it's mandatory here - the mandatory part only covers damages on other peoples cars when you're the guilty one). I also pay (extra) for windshield repair, and when a small rock on the highway breaks my windshield, i go to one of the preaproved service centers (or do the paperwork to do it somewhere else), get the glass replaced, and go home after ~30 minutes.
I also pay for dental in my mandatory government insurance (no way to opt-out), and when i see a dark spot on my tooth, i call the government dentist, and they tell me to come in six months, at 11.30am on a tuesday. I could wait that long, but by that time, my tooth could get worse, and a simple drill-drill-fill-fill might end up as an extraction or worse. So basically, I either have to pay for a private dentist to do it (full price, not just the difference in price compared to a government dentist), or wait six months and risk it. Either way, i pay for dental, that I don't get.
Same for eg. dermatologists... find a spreding dark spot on the skin.. wait six months+ (probably more now, due to the plague), or pay 70eur and get it checked out the next day. Wait six months, and a simple burn-off could be cancer.