[daemonologist]

It's a patchwork, with a lot of holes for people to fall through:

* Hospitals must treat or stabilize regardless of payment, but only for emergencies - they just have to try to keep you from dying on the spot

* The ACA (or Medicaid) subsidizes insurance for the unemployed, if your household income for the calendar year is low enough

* Employers are required to offer coverage to their employees, provided they work more than 30 hours a week at that company and it has at least 50 full time employees (this extends to dependent children but not spouses or other dependents)

This is better than nothing, don't get me wrong, but it could be a lot better still. We have the technology.