Originally Posted by Peaches

Not to point out the obvious but the "poor" in the US already get free healthcare. Hell, you can be illegally here and get free healthcare. Most states offer VERY inexpensive health insurance for children of working families and the top incomes to qualify (I think here in GA it's $42K) are quite generous.

The problem right now is that the costs aren't spread amongst those who are using the services. I pay for my healthcare with my $$$ and my insurance AND I pay for the healthcare of those who can't/won't pay for their own.

How to fix that? I don't know. One idea is to have mandated health insurance like there's mandated car and homeowner's insurance. Of course, that doesn't help us with the illegals we spend billions to treat each year.