Do you have a suggestion about how to provide healthcare to the poor and sick without "freebies?"
It's just math that we have millions of jobs, and 10s of millions of people who couldn't afford insurance before ACA. Even before that we had Medicaid, which mostly covered poor women with children. We have had Medicare for the old which allows nearly every senior, even the most poor, to have access to medical care in their old age. So, yeah, perhaps it's no "achievement" to make presents, but it's also no achievement to throw rocks at attempts to solve a problem without a better idea of how to go about it. We as a country are NOT going to turn people away and let them die in the streets for lack of insurance, at least not from emergency care, so "freebies" are baked into the cake of ANY healthcare system in the U.S. or any other industrialized country. If not, how do you suggest we cover the poor/sick without "freebies" as you describe it? We know how the rest of the industrialized world does it, so can you point to a better model out there somewhere?
