[GaryMontana]

If You are an alien legal or illegal you do not get free medical care! If you don't like it than return to the country of your origin.

Why should hard working Americans have to pay for everyone who never contributed to the system! We did not ask these people to come here. We did not put a gun to their head and say COME TO THE USA!

It costs the USA 24 billion a year to take care of illegal aliens. Time to move the USA troops out of Germany and have them guard our boundries.

The illegal aliens are draining our budgets. They are here breaking the law. Time to send them back where they are from. If they don't like it TOO DAMN BAD

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

The Medi-Cal population, legal and illegal, has a sense of entitlement that is astounding. They expect high quality, rapid health care and money for meals and transportation. Seriously.

I remember one young mother who had no way to deliver a urine specimen back to the lab. It had been ordered by the clinic where her child had been seen. She called 911. The medics could not deny her and she came through the ER sitting on a guerney holding this urine cup. That was a 500 dollar taxi ride at taxpayer expense. They don't have to pay a dime so they don't care. They have no shame.

[Betty Jane]

California hospitals that treat large numbers of poor patients would lose tens of millions of dollars in government aid if federal officials refuse to renew approval of a state health care program.

Sounds like this shouldn't be federal issue. If this program is so important to Californians, let them find the money elsewhere. Oh, I forgot. Gray Davis drove the state into debt.

[DoughtyOne]

Gary that $24 billion figure sounds like a lot of money. It's nowhere near the right amount IMO. LAUSD alone spends over $3 billion per year to school them. Imagine how many other school systems there are in California. Then Arizon, New Mexico, Texas... Then think healthcare. One patient can cost hospitals anywhere from a few thousand to a few hundred thousand dollars. I've seen some cases that ran up to one half a million. Then think the other states for healthcare too. We're talkin a lot of money!