In America, anyone who earns $20k a year with with a 2 year old is going to get free medical care, too. I have several kids and my medical care is free up until we make about $55,000 per year. If we had no jobs, same thing.
A close relative of mine (who is single) also had cancer and had 100% of it paid for.
Transportation costs are also paid for, although we never needed overnight accommodation so far.
My prior experience was in Australia was a youngster under a particularly terrible universal care system in the 1989s, and then in the 2000s when I lived in Canada.
I get a little weary of the refrain about how American healthcare is terrible, esp. for poorer people - it’s actually very good.
Why are 27 million Americans without healthcare, are why is medical bankruptcy so common?
A massive percentage of the population don’t have and/or can’t afford healthcare.
By definition, that is not a good system.
Well, by definition, someone who can’t afford it is eligible to apply for and receive assistance.
I know plenty of people who are eligible and simply don’t want to apply.
1)People who choose not to buy insurance because we don't force them to. 2) Adults in the remaining states that chose not to extend medicare who don't earn enough to qualify for ACA subsidies. 3) Adults who qualify for subsidies but still can't afford relativly expensive ACA plans. 4) Others? Not sure if that number includes noncitizens who don't qualify for assistance?