And on the other side you have people dying because they are denied food, shelter and healthcare as a policy choice.

It's not that they can't be taken care of. It's just that it'd cost money and eat profit margins.

It's an active political and ideological choice to let them die, same in both cases. Just happens to be an ideology you agree with and feel a need to defend.

The 180k are currently poor people, the 300k people poor over the past 10 years (which includes the 180). Didn't take the larger number, took the one that more accurately applied.