[ExI] health insurance: was RE: AI 2027: A Realistic Scenario of AI Takeover

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> I offered that I was under the impression that the USA had solved the whole health insurance problem by setting up a system where poor people can get health insurance free.  She agreed that such a system is in place, but hospitals are struggling now nearly as much now as they were before, because of all those people who are eligible to get free health insurance… most of them never do.  They only need to sign up for this, sign that, go here, do that, and it’s MAGIC!  The US government GIVES them free health insurance.  But most penniless people don’t ever do it.

Why is that, and what can be done about it?