The Uninsured, Illegal Immigration, and the Hamster Wheel

[WhiskeyGirl]

Will it ever be possible to provide good medical coverage, universal access, insurance to everyone LIVING in the U.S.?  At what point will the nation give up?

Universal Health Care-Why?

The biggest jewel in the legislative crown of President Obama in 2009 is universal health care.  It won't be called that, because it was shot down before under that name.  And to avoid another failure, and the hot-button charge of socialism, Obama's plan will contain a private sector component and a theoretical "choice" for consumers.

But in a game in which government is both creator and controller of the rules, its plan isn't likely to lose.  The private sector, controlled by government, will gradually shrink into the nothing it currently is in Canada.     

The Obama plan, or anything like it, wouldn't stand a chance of becoming law in this nation if it weren't for three factors:

The American public is notoriously apathetic about public policy until, when or if it obviously hits their pocketbooks.  The proof of this lies in the mature existence of Great Society programs in the federal budget, to disastrous fiscal effect, that they never voted for or against during the past five decades -- yet they have them, and the national debt they caused. Obama's plan is a reincarnation of an old idea that progressives and liberals have dreamed about for at least 70 years.
The elite media support Obama's plan and will give the glare of publicity to its attractive feature (accessibility to everyone) while ignoring the dismal history of similar plans in other nations.

Obama has so far sold the false proposition that health care reform is a necessary part of an economic recovery program.  Now he is trying to make nationalized health care the definition of reform.  Clever!  To agree with the former (reform) is to accept the latter (nationalization).  Not so.  The first is true; the second is only one possible solution path, and it has an alarming historical record.

But let's return for a moment to first things.  Why does Obama, or anyone, want to install nationalized health insurance in the freedom-loving United States -- to put government in charge of 16 percent of the national economy with power to affect daily lives and -- worst of all -- the life span of individuals?

Reports from CDC (Center for Disease Control), the Bureau of Census and elsewhere verify the uninsured number.  But other, more meaningful things are also reported that seldom appear in the national news:

o       Most uninsureds are in the 18-34 age bracket -- males dominate.

o       Hispanics, blacks and high school dropouts are uninsured to a far greater extent than others.

o       The uninsured are not spread equally across the nation; those with the highest immigrant population, legal and illegal, have the worst numbers -- states like Arizona, Texas, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina.

o       There is perhaps a group of six million people who are chronically uninsured as opposed to the 44-47 million that get the headlines.

Poor immigration control is a root cause of the Hispanic aspect of the uninsured problem.  Lack of assimilation effort, a popular part of today's obsession with multiculturalism, may explain why more Hispanics are not on Medicaid rolls.   

Put on your common sense hat.  Do you see 47 million people in the above analysis who are deprived of medical care by the cruel American system?  Do you see justification to junk the system that has been responsible for more medical advances than any other nation in the world?  Have you any idea of the international misery that will be caused if America's "medical idea factory" is destroyed by busybody bureaucrats?  And if you're still wavering, consider the following:

o       Every hospital in the nation with an emergency room must treat any patient who arrives.

o       Emergency room treatment in American hospitals is superior to the treatment available under government plans in places like Canada, England and Germany for medical conditions that require the use of modern technology and techniques.

o       On a personal note: I, a cancer survivor, would probably be dead had I been born in any nation with socialized medicine.  Tens of thousands of Americans could say the same.

http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/2009/06/07/universal-health-care-why?blog=81

What has the Obama administration done to close our borders to the movement of illegal people, drugs, and terrorists?

What ahs the Obama administration done to discourage illegal people from coming and staying? 

E-Verify?  The Real ID Act of 2005?  Are they mandatory?

If you legalize 40-50 million people, who is going to pay for all the public aid?  What about the 40-50 million people that come next year?  Those that will continue to come each day?  Waiting for the next amnesty, and applying for welfare for their children?

The United States is living a nightmare of open borders.  Crime, gangs, drugs, and job losses are destroying our communities.  It isn't about being afraid of people who are different, it's about watching your community be destroyed by bad things.

How can you prosper if there is no financial responsibility?  The country is full?  The Obama barn door is wide open to every person on the globe looking for a hand out and not a hand up?

When do Americans come first?  When is the hard earned money of everyday people in America safe?

When will there be an administration that works for Americans and not for everyone EXCEPT Americans?

jmho = just my humble opinions.

[WhiskeyGirl]

California also has a relatively high number of illegal immigrants, which complicates the debate over social service spending.

More than one third of cash-assistance cases involve benefits given only to children because their parents don’t qualify based on work requirements or their immigration status.

Waiting more than two hours at a Sacramento County welfare office on a recent day, Carolina Fuentes applied for cash assistance, food stamps and health coverage for her 5-year-old daughter, Katherine Fuentes.

The 22-year-old single mother said she is looking for a job and does not qualify for benefits herself because she crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally as a teenager. She doesn’t know what she will do if core state assistance is eliminated for her daughter.

“We really need the help,” she said.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/Calif-contemplating-rewrite-of-social-contract-47162807.html

What nation can American citizens go to for help?  Where can we just plant ourselves illegally and expect money and citizenship for any children born in this nation?

It seems like other nations treat illegals as criminals, felons, and unwanted people.  There are no benefits, no welfare, no jobs, no education for the children, and no citizenship.

Where can American citizens go for a handout? 

Illegal Aliens can take their families and go home during these troubled times.  Where can Americans go?

It seems like many nations are struggling with high unemployment.  Who wants excess Americans?  It seems like the illegals are welcome to stay, and Obama wants citizens to leave - travel the world, move elsewhere!

jmho = just my humble opinions

[WhiskeyGirl]

Another view of taxes and immigration -

The complexity of the US tax system creates a distracting and expensive proposition for start-ups.

Immigration to the US is absurdly difficult. Examples abound: working on Auctomatic, it cost thousands of dollars in legal fees and countless days to get the visas we needed. Liam Casey, a Corkman and chief executive of PCH International, left the US and now employs hundreds of people in China because he was unable to obtain a visa. One of the smartest Irish guys I’ve ever met, and an MIT graduate, was forced to leave New York after his employer failed to secure a work permit for him. In 2007, Microsoft set up an office in Canada, a few miles from the US border, for the sole purpose of circumventing US visa regulations.

These are both great opportunities for Ireland. The US is needlessly handicapping itself, creating an opportunity for some smarter region to gain an edge by doing things better. In the case of tax, Ireland should allow a start-up to defer all tax for a few years, or until revenues have reached a certain threshold. With immigration, make it as simple as possible for a start-up to hire whoever they want, wherever they may be from.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/innovation/2009/0608/1224248139138.html

Why is it that America lets millions cross the borders illegally and stay...while jobs are being exported to China and elsewhere at an alarming rate by the Obama administration...

No jobs for you America!!!  Only millions, and millions, of illegal aliens that seem to come annually.

It's sharing our prosperity with the world, and taking from people who've saved for a lifetime, hard honest working people in Indiana.  No one seems to care about how America is going to eat tomorrow, only on how to make rich global corporations and rich foreign countries richer.

No jobs for you America.  No prosperity.  Just slavery for your children and grandchildren.

No one is listening, they don't have the attention span due to things like twitter, and email.

jmho