This is indeed the issue, how to reconcile the fact that we cannot compel/force people to buy insurance, they can refuse to pay legitimate bills yet the system cannot deny care to someone in need?
Such an approach is unsustainable, hence the idea of a mandate to buy insurance. This mandate is non compatible with our Constitution.
If we are not able to support a mandate, then denying treatment is the only option.
I do not support a mandate to purchase insurance, and hate the idea of Obamacare. But the idea that you can provide unrestricted access to the system and not have anyway to get paid for that service is nonsensical.
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The proverbial Camel's nose under the tent. All free stuff is the totally discredited Utopian Dream - and leading to this fascist Obamacare coup d'etat, when one finally runs out of everybody else's money, and we are all bereft of anything to provide, and the system of fair exchange is gone.
It only takes pursuing simple logic to understand that most must work in order to provide for their needs, irregardless of how the bookkeeping is done. "Make" free stuff or service under force of law = enslave those who have the stuff, or can provide the service under force of law. I don't thinking whipping doctors/nurses/etc. will have the intended outcome. This is the world. Even "The One" cannot change it on a whim.
Might as well call for the tides not to turn, or the sun not to rise, as to rule that health care is free. We know this is useless!
Stuff and services are not free, they are produced by peoples' willing labor. They cannot be provided for free. Those who want to participate in using the stuff, save the charitable helpless, must participate by contributing their labor or services in sufficiency. There is no other enduring solution.