Because if someone needs healthcare and can’t afford it, you’re going to pay for it anyway.
Unless you want a system where medical emergencies are turned away at the hospital door. It will be less expensive for you to pay for society’s preventative holistic care than it will be to pay for emergency room visits once the problems have gotten worse.
Because if someone needs healthcare and can’t afford it, you’re going to pay for it anyway.
Unless you want a system where medical emergencies are turned away at the hospital door. It will be less expensive for you to pay for society’s preventative holistic care than it will be to pay for emergency room visits once the problems have gotten worse.
A lot of people definitely want that, especially if it’s brown people or LGBT+ people having the emergencies.
Since the fall of Roe, some hospitals with strict abortion bans have been doing exactly just that to pregnant women experiencing emergencies.