Nobody is expecting them to die of treatable illnesses. Treat them, bill them, and let them sort it all out. If they can't pay, then they'll be on the hook for the rest of their lives or until they can raise enough money through private sources. They'd even be eminently qualified to get hired by insurance companies as subjects of advertisements warning people what NOT to do when it comes to medical care.
It’s not just government, look at how thousands of dollars are raised for individuals who come down with treatable diseases. Nobody who donates seems to be asking why the family didn’t spent a hundred a month for a catastrophic care insurance, rather than waiting until they had hundreds of thousands of dollars of bills and then expecting strangers to donate money to fix it.
That's exactly my point. There are plenty of resources in this country for people who don't have the werewithal to pay enormous medical bills. We tend to be very generous as a nation, though it's certainly worth noting that those in Washington who are the most ardent supporters of big government also tend to be the least generous with their own resources.
Treat them, bill them, and let them sort it all out. If they can’t pay, then they’ll be on the hook for the rest of their lives or until they can raise enough money through private sources.
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you are assuming that they’d get the proper care even if they don’t have the money *now*