Honestly it wouldn't take a lot of changes, but it wouldn't work because the people who make the laws are those with money. And there are many people who profit

Honestly it wouldn't take a lot of changes, but it wouldn't work because the people who make the laws are those with money. And there are many people who profit from this problem. Then the wealthy spend their money convincing the public that the government shouldn't have to guarantee reasonably priced medical care because it would tax the wealthy out of the money they gained from this system. This is a pattern that repeats across a lot of issues that affect the poor. Look at overdrafts on bank accounts, mandatory prison sentences, for profit prisons, drug laws... If history has taught us anything, it's that the wealthy/powerful will continue this cycle until they're getting decapitated on the streets in a few decades, rather than make minimal changes now to head off the problem, no pun intended.