Much as I favor a laissez-faire approach to most things economic, I’m not prepared to extend it to letting people die if they can’t pay for treatment.
I didn’t say that people with a life-threateneing condition should be turned away just for inability to pay. But the ones who are repeat scammers, career criminals, etc. should definitely go the back of the line, or be simply turned away, while other people get treated. And if they die while in line, well, better them than the people who are not repeat scammers, career criminals, etc. There is simply not a bottomless pit of money and resources to provide endless high tech medical treatment to people who are liars, criminals, and self-destructive. If somebody gets drunk, gets in a car, and crashes into a car driven by someone who isn’t drunk, putting both drivers in critical condition, I want the one who wasn’t drunk treated first and treated thoroughly. Let the one who got drunk and caused the situation wait, even if it means that he/she dies waiting.