Posted on 12/04/2019 5:06:39 AM PST by Kaslin
The rush to the Left by Democratic presidential candidates in an attempt to win its nomination has resulted in a call for Medicare for All. Nearly every Democratic candidate has endorsed the inclusion of illegal aliens in this or similar government-run healthcare programs.
Medicare for All would be a fiscal disaster, whether it includes illegal aliens or not. Elizabeth Warren first drove this train past her rivals in the polls, but it has become a train wreck as her liberal rivals question it.
Warren rose to the status of the presumptive nominee in early October as she surged to a tie with Joe Biden nationwide, and surpassed him in early states like Iowa. Then came the presidential debate on October 15, where Biden and Pete Buttigieg criticized her on stage for the lack of details in her proposal.
Since then Warren’s national support has dropped in half, down to only 14 percent among Democratic voters. Her support in Iowa has plummeted too, falling by 6 percent to only 16 percent.
Warren’s unexpected decline correlates with her full-throttled endorsement of Medicare for All, for which she has released details after being criticized. At a town hall on November 8, Warren confirmed that her proposal would include Medicare for all illegal aliens, too.
“Medicare for All, as I put this together, covers everyone, regardless of immigration status, and that’s it,” Warren declared there in response to a question. The local audience applauded her, but the reception nationwide to her plan has been chilly, even among likely Democratic primary voters.
Her plan would cost $52 trillion, not just billion, over 10 years. She is competing with Bernie Sanders, who also supports free medical care for illegal aliens and even a moratorium on deportations.
The reality is that anyone, whether lawfully in the United States or not, can already show up at any emergency room in a hospital and receive free medical care. This has been true ever since Congress passed the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act of 1986 (EMTALA), which has contributed to hospital bankruptcies ever since.
Many illegal aliens have crossed our borders in order to show up at emergency rooms and give birth here in the United States, so that their child could claim American citizenship and thereby provide a basis for relatives to migrate here also. Known as “anchor babies,” they lack a constitutional right to citizenship but their relatives then demand entitlements.
The Democrats’ approach is the opposite of President Trump’s, who continues to work hard to reduce the enormous drag on the budget caused by people who are in the United States illegally. On August 12, Trump announced his new rule that green cards will not be issued to immigrants who are likely to become dependent on government aid.
Since 1882, federal law has prohibited the admission of anyone who is likely to become a “public charge,” or dependent on government programs at taxpayer expense. But, prior to Trump, many government programs were not even considered in evaluating whether someone crossing the border may become a public charge.
For example, government health care and housing have not been criteria for excluding an illegal alien because he is likely to become a public charge, and a drain on our budget. This omission meant that illegals and green card applicants could be milking Medicaid and free housing without scrutiny by an immigration official considering whether to allow them to stay.
New York, despite benefiting from a booming stock market on Wall Street, just announced that it expects a massive operating deficit of $6.1 billion, its largest since the Great Recession more than a decade ago. The cause is the hemorrhaging of dollars in its Medicaid program, a state program intended to pay health care costs for the poor.
New York is a magnet for illegal immigration whom its Democratic leadership has welcomed. It sends to Congress politicians who endorse Bernie Sanders, such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), better known as “AOC.”
Despite Trump’s valiant effort to reduce the issuance of green cards if the recipients are likely to become a public charge, in early October Democrat-appointed judges in three different blue states each independently blocked enforcement of Trump’s new rule. Two of these judges were appointed by Clinton, and a third by Obama.
Trump also properly attempted to suspend the entry into our country of immigrants who are likely to burden the health care system. Entitled Proclamation 9945, this would help preserve our scarce medical care dollars for Americans rather than foreigners.
But on November 26, an Obama-appointed judge overturned Trump Proclamation 9945. Judicial supremacy continues to block sensible orders by Trump which would protect our nation against the suffocating financial burdens caused by illegal immigration.
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Assuming Trump wins a second term (the obstacle to that is to keep the liberals from stealing the election), he's still just one man and can only do so much. We've still got a disgusting Repugnant senate and an absolutely treasonous house.
Medicare for all.
Snort.
What they really mean is Medicaid for all.
IOW, single-payer.
Indian Health Service for All. You’ll love it! We promise! When did we ever lie to you?
Knowing Trump, he has a plan for that.
And a shortlist of people to whom he’d entrust our republic.
My words of advice to anyone who tries to sell single payer to me: Spend some time in a country that has it, I already have, then get back to me.
Their goal is to take as much money as they can from us, and give it to those who don’t work, but vote democrat.
I agree. If only President Trump were given a free hand, without the impediment of bad people who do bad things for bad reasons, he would make it possible for everyone to have all the medical products and services they wish to consume at no appreciable cost to themselves.
Everyone knows this can be done! If only there were a way to give him all the power he needs to do this for us!
Oh yeah. They can give Medicaid to everyone in the world but what good would it be? You’ll be able to get an appointment.....in ten years..maybe.
MFA? By what authority?? Course, *nobody* cares about the STEP1 ‘hurdle’.
Then jive their answer w/ A1S8, 4th, 5th, 9th, 10th & 13th.
Hell, ignore that & point out the current $4T+ budget is $1.5+ BORROWED already. How does one pay for the now +$9T/yr??
Then jive their answer w/ A1S8, 4th, 5th, 9th, 10th & 13th.
Maybe, 1st, they’d should pay off the $150T+ in ‘unfunded liabilities’ in the RED before tacking on more...
Our country isn't built that way. We have a Constitution that prevents that from happening.
And it's a good thing. We wouldn't want the next leader with a "free hand" to be the likes of AOC or Omar.
I don't think the problem can be fixed at this point. America has become like the spoiled, indulged child that grew into an even more spoiled, more indulged, adult.
Some things can't be fixed. Some things can only be perpetuated in such a way as to try to avoid total collapse.
If you think it’s expensive now, wait until it’s “free!”
"Try" is the operative. I think the aging of the Baby Boomers is going to exhausted the supply of Other People's Money in the US, and then they whole, global, "We'll pretend your debt isn't worthless, you pretend ours isn't," house of cards will collapse.
As Susan Ivanova likes to say, "Boom!"
Here’s something better for us.
Let’s hope Pres. Trump puts the full package out there. This should be part of a Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement bill, missing since 1987 ONE TIME amnesty. The List of Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement, missing since 1987 goes like this -
1) southern barrier;
2) require eVerify to hire;
3) end all chain migration;
4) birthright per Minor v. Happersett (plural parents);
5) end work visas;
6) 10-year moratorium on all new applications for citizenship (40 years to allow workplace automation effects on downsizing population);
7) Set up an illegal aliens’ victim restitution fund.
Enactment of these provisions will motivate illegal aliens to SELF-deport, and remove colonizadors from our welfare rolls.
There is another fact that all the Dems appear loathe to tell us:
Those coming from other countries are often sicker than Americans. We have better food, shelter, and basic medical knowledge & care than all the 3rd world entities.
There is also often health problems that are from birth, and have become imbedded for life.
We do NOT need to pay more taxes to support medical care for everyone who is already breaking the law be invading our country.
It isn't exactly a new rule. It is a common sense enforcement of an age old rule. Even in the halcyon days of immigration during the active use of Ellis Island for screening (1890-1954), about 3% to 5% of arriving immigrants were rejected and returned to sender. The three most common reasons were (in order):
Other factors ranked further down the list.
I would figure the most viable threat would be hackers to introduce an algorithm that would give the RAT candidate 1.0001 votes to every 1 Republican vote. Or something along those lines.
/ (you might be right on the edge, generationally)
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