There are certainly some people out there that could afford to pay for their health care but don't and others who could be holding down jobs and supporting themselves but don't bother (which is my definition of deadbeats), but there are many more who don't have job skills, or who can't find a job (and can't afford to move to where jobs might be) or who are too disabled to hold gainful employment.

I'm not exactly sure what Susu's Hubby thinks a liberal is, but I assume that he's not referring to the dictionary definition of "freely giving, tolerant of other viewpoints and favoring reform or progress". Or maybe he is. Personally I think that the United States, as the country with the fourth-highest per-capita income in the world, should be able to afford to help out those individuals who are unable (and that's different from unwilling) to help themselves.