Legalize Illegals and Save Healthcare

You know we have done the whole "Let us simply declare illegals legal and then become serious about controlling the borders..." bit three times. And each time, the sudden legalization results in no improvement in the continuation of illegal immigration and has always resulted in a net drain on social entitlements now "legally" paid to the former illegals. Making illegals legal so they are qualified for government health care entitlements won't solve the medical cost gaps we have now.

If I thought legalizing them would work, I'd be all for it.

Understand this simple and indisputable point. If you seal the borders, expel current illegals, and introduce a sane streamlined and simple immigration policy to legally allow people to come to the country, you would in turn see many- if not all- problems caused by having 10-15 million illegals draining entitlements of funding cease to be a problem. Over night if you adopted my point 3 solution, hospitals could resume their former charity towards those legally in the country who no have no other access to emergency health care.

It really is that simple.

ANY PLAN ADVOCATED BY ANYONE THAT DOES NOT ADDRESS ILLEGAL ALIEN COSTS INCURRED BY HEALTH CARE IS EITHER A SHAM OR A POLITICAL PAYOFF.

Period. End of story. Access to health care is not the issue. Thanks to national and state laws, anyone needing health care is granted that care regardless of the cost of that care or their ability to pay. The problem is that illegals after receiving such health care do not provide the hospitals with any means of service recovery even on a wholesale basis. The result is hospitals are either shutting down or instituting draconian measures against one of the few costs they can control- namely employee compensation and doctor reimbursements.The hospitals are collectively telling their workers to work for less because between 10 and 30% of the customers do not pay a dime.

Watch as Obama's Health plan suddenly includes a unionization plan to set national wage standards and force unionization as a means to effect a controlled spending environment. It will be a boon to the AFL/CIO, but won't save a cent and put the nail in the coffin of people having an economic incentive to become a health care worker.

You think there are health care access problems now? Wait until the nursing and doctor shortage becomes exacerbated by the fact that 10 years of schooling and hundreds of thousands of dollars of tuition debt makes no sense if it only nets you a job that makes you 50k a year and is no longer a profession but instead a regulated skilled trade governed by a national union.