haifagirl,
Taxes and insurance premiums are going up in part because there are so many uninsured Americans getting emergency care. I guarantee you that if you were uninsurable and got sick you would not mind paying higher taxes.
richthefurrydoc,
Rabbi Dr. Moshe Tendler has stated that there is a chiyuv on the community to provide health care for all. I have seen no posek disagree. Israel does so with the total support of the religious parties.
A600KiloBear,
Funny you mention COBRA which is a government subsidized mandate, and Medicaid which is a government run insurance program. I thought you didn’t like government programs?
And “Community assistance” simply does not exist. There is no fund that guarantees the medical bills of any Jew who can’t pay. And the cost of creating such would be greater than the cost of every yeshiva in America put together.
And your choice of Teddy Roosevelt is poignant: He endorsed National Health Insurance 97 years ago. (And his foreign policy was not anything like what the founding fathers would have dreamed of.)