Poor people have always had access to health care and society has always paid for it. You don't get turned away at the ER and we have Medicaid ($545B) and Medic

Poor people have always had access to health care and society has always paid for it. You don't get turned away at the ER and we have Medicaid ($545B) and Medicare ($646B) [1]. The people that get hosed the most are the ones with assets, like middle-class homeowners with some savings that have a major health emergency. It makes sense to try and force everyone onto health insurance before they need it, just like auto insurance; as it will cost a lot more to everyone if people are uninsured. But I agree that bringing down the cost should be a focus. Everyone gets a raw deal when doctors play billing games any chance they get, like giving x-rays for everything and keeping people overnight unnecessarily and charging insurance companies exorbitant multiples of the cash price. I actually know someone carving out a business going into healthcare centers and showing them how to make more money- by not playing admin/billing games and just serving patients. That's just crazy. [1] https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/statistics-trends-and-reports/nationalhealthexpenddata/nhe-fact-sheet.html https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/sta...