And when you're dying on the sidewalk in front of the hospital, do you expect them to just let you die there and leave it to the county to dispose of the body?

And when you're dying on the sidewalk in front of the hospital, do you expect them to just let you die there and leave it to the county to dispose of the body? Like it or not it's unreasonable and inhumane to let capitalism condemn someone to a preventable death. Someone has to foot the bill for this. The only question is who and how. The naive answer is to let the hospital eat the loss but ultimately that just means that the rest of the patients pay it in increased costs. You can't sell yourself into slavery, you can't sell your organs, and you can't sign a contract to let the hospital ignore you dying on the sidewalk in front of the ER.