The bankruptcies are from living expenses, not medical expenses.
Families can generally house other family members. They can't pay $90k medical bills.
All poor people in the US are eligible for medicaid. Many don't bother to sign up until they get sick.
How are poor people supposed to know this? I didn't know this. I went to the website and it wasn't the least bit clear. Discoverability is absolutely terrible.
The rest of your statements are just silly extrapolations. There will always be edge cases that cannot be fully served.
>> The bankruptcies are from living expenses, not medical expenses.
> Families can generally house other family members. They can't pay $90k medical bills.
The point is that they don't have to. However, living expenses must be either paid or borrowed from folks who are fairly insistent on being repaid. Hence the bankrupcies, and if you're going to file, you claim everything.
>> All poor people in the US are eligible for medicaid. Many don't bother to sign up until they get sick.
> How are poor people supposed to know this?
Poor people don't have to know it because health care professionals know it. It's how said health care professionals get paid for treating poor people.
Also, why do you think that you know what poor people know? When I was poor, I knew things that I don't know now.
How is "there are always treatments that won't be paid for" a silly extrapolation? You even (seem to) admit that it's true...
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.
Families can generally house other family members. They can't pay $90k medical bills.
All poor people in the US are eligible for medicaid. Many don't bother to sign up until they get sick.
How are poor people supposed to know this? I didn't know this. I went to the website and it wasn't the least bit clear. Discoverability is absolutely terrible.
The rest of your statements are just silly extrapolations. There will always be edge cases that cannot be fully served.