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Before Obamacare, Individual healthcare coverage was already a right guaranteed to all with no lines of distinction, under EMTALA. The assholes who passed that law - Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party - did not fund it, forcing hospitals to shift the costs of providing care to all who enter an ER to those who do pay for insurance.
Ronald Reagan really isn't a conservative by modern standards though he did have some opposition to Medicare and Social Security but eventually fell in line somewhat as he began to understand just how incredibly popular these programs are.