BS”D
And you have no sympathy for someone who has worked all his life, loses his job at age 58, and gets sick? To tell this person he must die because he can’t pay for medical treatment or medicines is morally deficient!!!
BS”D
COBRA
Medicaid
Community assistance (something that seems to exist only in the Torah world and perhaps among lehavdil the Mormons and Amish).
Then again, I voted with my feet in 1992. I am happy to be living in a model Jewish community that is located in a flat tax, free enterprise system (even with the rampant corruption). Because of the lack of incentives for private enterprise to care for the poor and ill as our community does here, people will fall through your Federal safety net no matter what. Here, we (and another minority group) know to expect nothing from the government so we help each other. In the US, even bnei Torah know that the Federal keren hachessed is always there and they often find it best not to work in order to avail themselves of its services, leading to all kinds of ugliness.
And if tax rates go up and/or quality of health care goes down because of this bill (probably won’t happen because the bill is devoid of any real innovation), people will risk Federal koilel (as many do in EY) rather than essentially work their fingers to the bone for the benefit of the left, the bureaucracy that they spawn and their lazy charges.
Then, there will have to be a tax amnesty followed by a complete return to the old America as the founding fathers meant it to be, the “business of America is business” domestic policy and Teddy Roosevelt foreign policy. I’m not holding my breath, though, because just as with Rome, once rot and laziness sets in, it’s all over in a few generations.