Ummm… doesn’t the government literally print money? Sure you can’t just print infinite money as it devalues the currency, but I don’t think stating whether or not the government has money is a helpful framing. The government has an entirely different relationship to money. I could be wrong but taxes are more a way to keep value of the currency by creating some artificial scarcity. Sure, the government tries to keep a balance between taxation and expenditure to avoid devaluing the currency too much, but that’s not the same thing. In fact, governments regularly run deficits (spending money they don’t have) without collapsing. The only real risk is of a major currency devaluation because you managed the inflation incorrectly.
Consider the “out” for the US debt ceiling being bandied about is minting a trillion dollar coin.
And somebody has to pay the medical support staff.
The sense that "this is necessary so it should be free" is not unique to the parent comment, but it is incorrect.