I bet the people that make up the draconian rules about homelessness haven't been homeless.

Here in Australia, if you end up on unemployment benefits, they don't have a time limit. If you are unemployed it has no affect on your access to medical care. You get a small certificate that actually entitles you to discount medicine. So being unemployed is horrible, but not a death sentence. Get a cut on your finger, or an infection, or a broken leg, go to the hospital and get treatment. There are no insurance agencies involved.

If you can help people not get too desperate, then there is less chance they'll turn to crime and violence. Makes sense. Desperate people do desperate things. Keep the population reasonably happy, even when things go wrong, and you can keep crime lower. Is common sense. Stop people dying in the gutter and things are nicer for everyone.

Seems to me that in the USA benefits are only for the employed. Everyone else can just die in the gutter, or turn to crime. And then there is access to firearms. So in the USA, let people get desperate for shelter and medical care in a place where firearms are common and even supported by the Government.

The USA is the only place where one's life can be destroyed by a medical debt that happens over a trivial thing.