Reply #20: What makes you so sure they will get health care?

[county worker]

They will get forced to pay for insurance but that does not translate into health care.

Why not pass a bill paying for their health care and not insurance?

I was a controller at a medical clinic. We had lots of people show up with insurance that we did not accept because it did not pay even 80% of what Medicare paid. The patients had to make up the difference. They had insurance but did not have the money to make up the difference.

We saw them anyway and wrote off what they could not pay.