There is a place for compassion but it is not via the force of government arms. Compassion belongs to individuals and their voluntary associations. There is no such thing as a compassionate government.
You would force all of the rest of us to support your compassion. How do you reconcile such a thing? You would cause the IRS to seize my personal property in order to help those you believe should be shown compassion.
There is nothing to stop you from spending ALL of your wealth to help someone. You even said you would risk your life so what is spending all you have compared to that? So go ahead and have at it but DO NOT force the rest of us to go along with it.
You mention if people do not pay they should get help but less than those who pay. I am curious where does your compassion end? After you have the government take our money to pay for getting the dying man off the street, will you also have us pay for his kidney transplant? You wouldn’t pay for it personally would you? Even though you would die helping him from getting run over buy a bus.
There are 60 million people on Medicaid, including the children in the CHIPS program. And there are 12 to 20 million illegals who use our ERs as free medical clinics. I guess Blitzer is more concerned about a few working American citizens getting on the socialist gravy train. We need more Americans paying so we can expand the freebies to others.
Easy solution, as I learned 30 years ago from one of the homeless town drunks. Every October he’d throw a brick through a jewelry store window and wait patiently until the police arrived to take him to jail. By spring he’d received better medical and dental than most Americans and he was out for the summer, all fixed up and rearing for six good months of Wild Irish Rose binges.
I believe there is a societal benefit to not having people die on the street, that MAY rise to the level of a legitimate government purpose. But it’s not something I’d fight for, more something I wouldn’t object to as part of a plan to repeal Obamacare.
On the other hand, if we get strict about it, there’s a lot of stuff that needs to be stopped that we’ll never get any congress to vote to stop.