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CMV: Universal child care is more important than universal health care

It is more important for the government to sponsor child day care (birth – kindergarten) than it is to spend on health care. Health costs are mostly consumed by the elderly . Child care costs are almost by definition consumed by working age parents. Free child care would eliminate the need for a parent (usually female) to leave the workforce and reduce house hold income to care for the child. This absence from the workforce is a contributing factor to the “wage gap” (I’m not here to debate this part) females experience when returning to work after kids are in school. This would be a natural economic boost to the middle/lower class that needs all the income they can get.

Anecdotally, my wife is a teacher and once we have our second child we will be spending more in day care than she makes for the year. For reference the day care near us charges $329/wk – per child.

Edit: I mean to refer to day care costs, not health care. Also for the sake of debate I'm pretending we have to pick either health care or day care costs.
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Universal health care covers universal child healthcare, and are of equal importance. If you're talking about a government paying for **all** care for children, that's a bit trickier. When you have a kid, you take on some responsibilities that the government is not responsible for. The important point here is you *don't have* to have children, but in a country with universal health care, you *have* to have health care (I'd hope you'd sign up for it at least).    
     
As for the government paying for day care, well, since ages 0-4 are very important for a child's growth, you technically shouldn't be putting them in a day care. The government already provides for education past age 4, which is a pretty big expenditure in itself.     
      
If we're talking about comparing importance, universal health care covers all people of all ages for their entire lives. Universal child care covers kids of age 4 or less and would ease a bit of the burden of the parents. It is decidedly not more important.