“he freely chose the situation he is in”
What if he can’t get promotion? Then he doesn’t deserve a doctor because he is incapable of promotion?
As I said, taxes are staggered so the poor don’t subsidise much.
That must be the difference in the UK, here, the job market is such that if you are willing to sacrifice, work harder, get educated, maybe switch jobs, you can get a promotion, but the choice is in your hands.
I think you are misunderstanding something very important that several people here have already hinted at. In the US, even though we don’t have universal healthcare, the poor are already taken care of through medicade and other programs. All a universal program would do is put in the government’s hands a program that the people who aren’t already covered, can afford to pay on their own.
It is understandable that you don’t know this, if you listen to politicians, you would think all the poor are dieing from lack of insurance. This, of course, isn’t the case. The poor are already covered.
To try and meet this requirement, emergency rooms are having ambulances keep the patient onboard and in the parking lot until such that time they will be seen within 3 hours after they enter the building. The clock doesn't start ticking until the person actually is brought inside.
So the ambulance can sit in the parking lot for 5 hours, and then the person wait in the emergency room for 2.5 hours, and technically, they have met the 3 hour requirement.