The "upside" is national-level PAC money financing your campaign.

It won’t even save money in the long run.

When people don’t have access reliable healthcare, they tend to use even more expensive (for society) options like emergency rooms and grey/black market. People who become disabled or die from lack of healthcare don’t tend to pay much in the way of taxes.

To my knowledge, legal protections against unpaid emergency room bills not leading to credit harm or debt collection exist only in California and New York. Also, emergency rooms are very limited in the care they dispense - they don't dispense chemotherapies.

This is what I’m talking about:

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/01/who-makes-mor...

> Individuals who were unemployed made roughly 2.5 times as many preventable emergency care visits as those who had a job (Figure 3).

> Lack of health insurance coverage was another factor that appeared to play a role in preventable ER visits.

> According to the study, individuals without health insurance had more preventable visits to the ER than those with health insurance (Figure 4).

> This suggests that uninsured individuals may not seek primary care for chronic conditions ahead of an urgent episode or they may rely on emergency rooms for general health care needs.