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A hospital in the US can’t just let you die because you don’t have insurance. So when somebody is in a dire situation and isn’t insured their debt will usually be sold for pennies on the dollar to a debt collector, who will then make their life hell in ways that aren’t always legal, and the difference is just absorbed by the hospital who will then raise prices on others to compensate. Thus healthcare will cost more especially if more people are removed from having insurance or other coverage. I believe this is what the person you were responding to was trying to point out.

People will still get emergency care, even if they can’t afford it. They go bankrupt. They will forgo preventative treatment, but this is kicking the can down the road and leads to a net increase in medical costs in the long run.

In any case, your original comment about people having more free time to protest because they don’t have to go to work to keep their insurance is nonsense. The ones getting kicked off their insurance are not the ones getting it through their employers. They are getting it through the ACA marketplace, i.e. purchasing it themselves. Even if they were losing work-subsidized health insurance, they would still have to work because other things people need cost money too. Things like food and (as you mentioned) housing.