Just pointing out that our relatively liberal policies for allowing immigration and for providing services for illegals
may lead to costs greater than anticipated and we need to be prepared for that.[/quote]
I'm A voice crying in the wilderness but You have to remember that when LBJ started Medicare and Medicaid the he gave his word the both programs would only cost at the most a 100 million or so.
I personally, and I make my living practicing medicine, wish that there was some way to get the government totally out of practice of medicine. I would lose at least half of my income over night and I would dance in the street screaming "
FREEDOM ". It would be so wonderful to just practice medicine and get paid by patients with out the federal government manipulating every aspect of what we do according to how a particular group votes.
The idea that every one needs any kind of insurance other than for catastrophic illness is
mass insanity. you have to remember that the concept that you have to have a insurance policy to go see a doctor only started when the federal government got involved in providing free health care for groups of
special people in order to manipulate their voting patterns. Prior to that you went to see
your Doctor and you paid a very reasonable amount for an office visit. If you needed it you went to the hospital. The hospitals were all run by truly non profit organization, counties, states, and churches. The cost was as reasonable as possible and there were NO insurance executives, Doctors, Hospital administrators, or investors in health care flying around in their private planes or living in their McMansions prior to the advent of FREE health care mandated by the Feds.
If you think that health care is expensive now....... You just wait till it is FREE. OH well! rant off. Frankly I don't see any hope. We are tooo far down the road to true socialism to turn back now.