IF they ask. You're assuming they're all dying to do so, and are somehow being utterly blocked from any and all contact with healthcare professionals. You're insane.
Living in poverty, living in low income areas, are barriers to improving ones health and education.
so how do we get people out of poverty? by giving them free stuff or by creating a job for them?
By expanding services to people in low income areas to help them get on their feet. Also many people who are poor are actually disabled or mentally ill. They need help in many ways and are not receiving it.
The other way of course is growing the economy. Boosting quarterly real GDP growth. Most economist agree that in order to get to sustained 3% real GDP growth annually, we need to increase immigration into the country and stop the war and deportation on so called "illegals". The United States is suffering an ever expanding labor shortage which is going to put a damper on economic growth which will only hurt the poor and middle class even more.
The United States also needs to raise taxes on the rich, their income, capital gains, property and estates, and reinvest that money in education and building economic growth in depressed areas.
So you think the government can create jobs better than the free market? So did Marx, Lenin, Castro, Mao, and Stalin.
you also agree with them on punishing the rich for being successful, your socialist idols say, "well done comrade"
I didn't say that. I did say that the government can help the private sector. It can also help people and areas that the private sector often leaves behind.
The rich earn their money from the MARKET which they did not create, they were just born into it. I believe in helping protect and grow the market which means the rich must return a good portion of the earnings to do that since they profit the most from it. Its NOT punishment, its helping to keep the MARKET going so that there can be new Billionaires well into the future. We also want a competitive environment, not one where the rich are able to stamp out all competition through monopoly. One of the best things about capitalism is free and fair competition. The more competitive the market is the better. The Rich threaten that competition when they achieve to much power, and monopoly over certain markets, and use that advantage to crush competition to their personal benefit but to societies detriment.
your paragraph in bold could come directly from the communist manifesto. you, and they, want the government to regulate commerce and to choose winners and losers instead of letting the free market do it.
Nothing the government can ever do will make everyone equally successful, but it can make everyone equally miserable. Venezuela is the latest example of the result of the policies that you are pushing.