Sounds like you are an undecided moderate. Your post makes no sense. You wouldn’t fight to have the government keep people from dying in the streets. Yet you wouldn’t mind if when repealing Obama care there is a plan for government to keep people from dying in the streets? Explain that please.
Do you believe we live in a country that will not take care its sick unless compelled to do so via government force?
Why do so many people on this thread seem to think that unless we are forced to pay for the care of other people they will die in the streets?
What I would fight for is different from what I could live with.
It’s maybe a convoluted way of saying I’m describing something I could live with, but I’m not describing it because it is my preference, just what I think we’ll have to live with because of the reality of life.
I’m not an undecided moderate, if I had to label myself wrongly I’d say something worse — a conservative realist.
I have yet to find anybody, no matter how much they want to stop government from spending money on stuff it shouldn’t, who say they would FIGHT to pass a law that would leave patients dying on a sidewalk in front of a hospital.
If you truly believe that people should either pay their own way, OR be at the mercy of charity, you have to allow for the possibility that some people won’t take steps to be able to pay for their own treatment, and some of them simply won’t be rescued by charity.
I happen to believe that in fact, you can continue operating just fine the way we are, with hospitals required by law to treat people who can’t pay, and all of us picking up the tab. That only works if too many people don’t decide to go the freeloader route, but you can stop that by making the freeloader route unattractive, by making freeloaders wait longer and get less extensive care and treatment.
I just don’t know if we have the political will to pass the laws that would put us back in a situation where people have to fend for themselves. We’d be better off if we had never allowed our country to get away from self-reliance. But it is really hard to go back.