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Originally posted by nostatic
i think the hospital closings are more about uninsured patients and health care costs rather than "illegal" status of the people coming through the doors.
Tech lives in Los Angeles...
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the illegal aliens don't have insurance and are intructed by the Mexican govt how to get free care at the ER, and to have their children in the US so they are eligible for "free" healthcare. The ER is used as a primary care physician as they cannot be turned away by law, and they can't be asked to pay prior to treatment
You are right, there is no free lunch. Someone pays. If you have someone paying in nothing, or very little, and using say, $10,000 worth of services for the education of kids, free healthcare of kids and various other services and entitlements, that money comes from somewhere, and it ain't Narnia.