living expenses must be either paid or borrowed from folks who are fairly insistent on being repaid Like I said, most people have family they can move in with

living expenses must be either paid or borrowed from folks who are fairly insistent on being repaid Like I said, most people have family they can move in with in an emergency. Most families, however, do not have $90k to cover a medical bill. Also, why do you think that you know what poor people know? 1) I've been not poor. 2) I'm currently classified as poor. 3) I have vastly greater informational resources at my disposal than most poor people. How is "there are always treatments that won't be paid for" a silly extrapolation? Because it's an utterly pointless statement. Of course there will always be some portion of the populace that cannot be ideally treated. That is no argument whatsoever against doing something to improve the standing of the majority.