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Not to mention the overcrowding of the entire healthcare system that will have no other choice than to reduce/ration care for everyone
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Those people are getting healthcare
now, but only emergency - they are tying up emergency rooms and trauma centers for diabetes blood checks and colds/flu, sprains, etc!
Get them insurance so they get preventive care (lowering all our healthcare costs, because we pay for them in the ER), get them out of the ER and hospitals, and get them into a regular doctor's office where they belong.
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I believe the subsidizing of medical students in return for a certain amount of service in return is a great idea as these new Dr.'s could do internships and residencies at government run hospitals treating government supported patients. This would be constitutional IMO, allow those unable to buy insurance to be treated and no changes would be made to those who are happy with their current care.
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The government does that now - provides educational subsidies for doctors, they replay loans with service. The army does it, too. Ever see the show Northern Exposure? Yes, I agree expansion of those programs would be great. Trouble is, that puts a newly credentialed doctor who just came off 4 plus years of lowpaid work (intern, residency) and puts them right in another few years of low paid work. This is when people want to start families, etc. They are 35-40 years old before they then join a practice, and start to make any money to pay off student loans. Let alone buy the house, etc. That's why those programs are not popular with doctors.
I would rather have insurance costs lowered so more Americans can be insured, pay for their own insurance, all our costs go down for insurance because the pools are bigger, they start getting better healthcare for preventive care so everyone gets healthier, which brings all our costs down.
Rather than leaving them uninsured and depending upon others for charity.
Edit: Dell, have you heard what's happened in Arizona? Real
death panels. Governor Jan Brewer has taken money away from anybody on the state medicaid that needs a transplant, to save money in the overall state budget. Two people have died already.
One person's operation was canceled the morning they were being wheeled into a surgery suite to get a new liver - a friend had died and given them the liver, but that was the morning Jan Brewer cancelled the funding. That person never got that liver.
Other state legislators are furious, and have come up with other ways to keep that program funded but cut the funding from non-life-threatening portions of the state budget, but Jan Brewer refuses to address it.
What do you think of that, Dell? When withholding money kills real people with real families? And they are not "freeloaders" on the state.