I'm reacting to the harsh, judgmental attitude towards people in NOLA and using health care insurance to point out that the world is complicated. Some people a

I'm reacting to the harsh, judgmental attitude towards people in NOLA and using health care insurance to point out that the world is complicated. Some people are certainly unhealthy because of choices they made (yet there's still broad support for universal risk sharing), while some people in NOLA certainly aren't there by choice. The poverty rate there is about twice the US average, and something like 40% of Americans don't have any substantial savings. Many people aren't able to uproot themselves and move even if they wanted to without outside financial assistance, at which point I'm sure someone will be asking 'why should we pay to move people when they made a bad choice of where to live?', forgetting that these people may have lived there for generations.