If all US Citizens will be required by Federal Law to buy and have health insurance, then will the bag ladies and guys with tin cups on the corner have to collect more handouts to pay their premiums? More importantly, will doctors and hospitals be required to admit and treat them to keep them up to a national standard for acceptable health? Will the effects of hunger, severe cold and heat, dental problems and other effects due to neglect be covered? How will they be punished for not buying insurance? If not participating in the Economy becomes a Federal Crime, will the Government have to put an end to Homelessness? What will this mean for the ideology of Freedom as our primary Right under Constitutional Law?
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Not sure. You can investigate what is happening in Massachusetts now, or Canada. In Mass, you are hit by higher taxes if you dont have insurance. Not sure how that would affect homeless as most don't pay taxes anyways. If it were to be a crime to have no health insurance, and homeless would need to go to jail. That wouldn't work either since the jails are overcrowded as is, and governments do not have money to house and feed the inmates even today. So homeless are not the issue here. Overall cost of healthcare will go up and the quality will go down. Just like in Canada.
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