Can some enterprising newsperson please ask

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. They clearly think that

you planned very badly by getting diabetes, and not getting a better paid job. You should simply get some job that has good health care.

They don't give a flying fuck that you are in your situation because as far as they're concerned, it's all your fault.

They have zero compassion, zero sympathy for anyone not wealthy.

You do have my sympathies. We all have control over some things, little or no control over others. Civilized nations treat their citizens with dignity and respect, and that includes seeing that they have decent health care.

A partially sensible answer to your question is that you can go to the ER in a health crisis. If the hospital accepts any federal funding at all (generally in the form of taking Medicare/Medicaid) they are obligated to treat you. But they are only obligated to stabilizes you, and then can cut you loose. It's marginally better than nothing at all.

Again, my sympathies.