It is nice that the taxpayer provided free health care for you. I am not sure why you could not buy insurance, at least for catastrophic care. Why do you think that someone else should pay for your health care? What else do you think that someone else should pay for?
Unfortunately, many people agree with you. They want someone else to pay for their health care. We are headed for a system of price controls and rationing. With free health care, demand will increase substantially. Price controls will limit supply. Free health care will mean that you do not need to worry about payment but you will not obtain much health care, especially high quality health care.
Taxpayers pay for a lot of things, including abortions. No one asked me how I felt about it before funding it.
And would have preferred my husband be turned away from the hospital and died because idiot cops chased a guy for a ficticious tag at speeds over 125 mph and the guy being chased hit my husband’s truck head on? The taxpayers will pay one way or another. How about we all get the same health insurance congress gets? Who pays for that?
He would have had health insurance in a few weeks at the new job. The accident happened too soon, that’s all.