Editorial: Climate change and the immigrant caravan's impact 
on healthcare

Modern Healthcare ^ | October 26, 2018 | By Merrill Goozner

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The caravan of Central American migrants making 
its way north may well determine the future of 
healthcare in America.

If enough voters are swayed by President Donald Trump's demagogic demonization of those unfortunate souls - this year's October surprise - the Republicans will retain control of Congress and the protections and insurance expansion contained in the Affordable Care Act will be toast.

Toast is an apt metaphor since it alludes to a major cause of Central American migration and many other geopolitical calamities around the globe. The tropics are frying.

Most media reports about the caravan ignore its roots in climate change. They assure us there are no ISIS guerrillas or MS-13 gang members hidden in the migrants' midst, as the president repeatedly asserts.

The entire region has been buffeted by severe drought conditions since 2015. This year, its farm belt, which usually counts on two harvests a year, saw almost nothing grow.

The chaos south of our border isn't the only climate-driven event destabilizing global politics. Many political analysts point to farm failures as a root cause of the Arab Spring and the ongoing war in Syria.

In the Trump-designed health insurance marketplace, which is potentially right around the corner, care will be reserved for those who can afford it. That in turn will force margin-driven insurers and providers to build walls to keep out the growing number of uninsured.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[Red Badger]

Climate Change, Immigration and ObamaCare all in one article......................HAT TRICK!..................

[Pining_4_TX]

I will tell this guy what the impact is on health - drug-resistant TB, measles, mumps, and now AFM that is striking children and paralyzing them. Let this jerk take the diseased into his home to live with his family. These elites don’t bring the refuse of the teeming shores to live next to them. They inflict them on lower and middle class Americans.

[GOPJ]

That polio like disease we're seeing now in the US has been happening to sugar workers in Nicaragua for years now...

[hinckley buzzard]

The usual alarmism from yet one more scientifically naive journalism graduate.

[Tenacious 1]

Most media reports about the caravan ignore its roots in climate change. They assure us there are no ISIS guerrillas or MS-13 gang members hidden in the migrants' midst, as the president repeatedly asserts.

What a statement!!!??? A lot of faith in a "media reports."

[palmer]

The entire region has been buffeted by severe drought conditions since 2015. This year, its farm belt, which usually counts on two harvests a year, saw almost nothing grow.

That's a complete lie. 2017 and 2018 had normal precipitation and harvests. http://www.fao.org/giews/earthobservation/asis/data/country/GTM/MAP_RFE_ANOMALY/HR/wt1828s.png http://www.fao.org/giews/earthobservation/asis/data/country/HND/MAP_ASI/HR/ot1828h_rC1_s1_g2.png

[IronJack]

It’s a veritable smorgasbord of lefty talking points all stirred together in one reeking stew!

[48th SPS Crusader]

unfortunate souls? Are you a total fool or just playing at it?

[48th SPS Crusader]

They assure us there are no ISIS guerrillas or MS-13 gang members hidden in the migrants’ midst, as the president repeatedly asserts.

Yeah I gotta go with the President over the media on this one!

[48th SPS Crusader]

In the Trump-designed health insurance marketplace, which is potentially right around the corner, care will be reserved for those who can afford it

Lying is never a good way to try and make a point about anything!

[Red Badger]

WTH?............................

[Pollster1]

Bonus irony: If we removed the 20 million uninsured illegals who are draining social services, medical and insurance costs would drop for normal Americans. Right now, hard-working Americans are paying to subsidize every previous flood of undocumented democrat voters, and this nutcase wants even more of them?

[Brian Griffin]

“That polio like disease we’re seeing now in the US has been happening to sugar workers in Nicaragua for years now...”

Sounds like it’s a pesticide (or herbicide) problem.

A typical viral disease would be more widespread in Nicaragua.

[Brian Griffin]

“care will be reserved for those who can afford it.”

That’s the way it’s been since the Pilgrims came to the USA.

[Brian Griffin]

“If enough voters are swayed by President Donald Trump’s demagogic demonization of those unfortunate souls”

I just can’t stand Democratic politicians in general.

I don’t care too much for Republican politicians either.

However, Republican politicians don’t generally exude phoniness and histrionics.

[Brian Griffin]

“unfortunate souls”

The US jobs these people are coming for have already been taken by Mexicans and other Central Americans.

It’s now rare to see a European ancestry construction worker in my area of Florida.

[Brian Griffin]

“Climate change”

I’d love to be able to provide Upstate New York with a coastal California climate, but I know of no way to do so.

[eyeamok]

it's the healthcare equivalent of the administration's climate and border policies. They promote fossil fuels and scrap vehicle mileage standards while building a wall to keep out the victims of those policies and do nothing to prevent their plight.


It's ALL your Fault!, at least we know it has nothing to do with their Corrupt Socialist/Marxist Governments.