Tax credits are one thing, direct subsidies are another, and not something others' tax dollars should be supporting. Covering pre-existing conditions turns insurance into a payment plan that gets very expensive, and becomes untenable without the immoral insurance mandate. Finally, there are those in our community whom will never be dragged up into the middle class, either due to genetics or choice, no matter how much of other people's money you throw at them (and continuing attempts to do so is how we will fail as a nation).