Comments on: Undocumented Shouldn't Mean Uninsured

The New Republic: Leaving Illegal Immigrants Out Of Health Care Only Costs Taxpayers Money

[brianbwb-2009]

The New Republic: Leaving Illegal Immigrants Out Of Health Care Only Costs Taxpayers Money

The Old Brian: Why Should Foreigners Here Illegally Get What We Cannot Afford?

[gkc99]

So the Chimp smirks and does nothing.

[cowboy1942]

Again, drain the Soc. Sec. funds of all the American citizens who worked all their lives in order to give ILLEGALS free healthcare! When the hell is America going to wake up! Round up and deport these freeloaders,no charge! That should be the ONLY freebie they get!

[payasyougo]

One study in the American Journal of Public Health found that, in 1998, the average health care expenditures of a Hispanic immigrant, documented or undocumented, totaled $972. For a white, U.S.-born citizen, they were over $3,000.)
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What is doesn''t say is that for every white expenditure there are 10 Hispanic immigrant expendatures. And only one bill paid with 10 going uncollected.

[payasyougo]

In 2000, a study from Health Affairs found that less than 1 percent of undocumented immigrants "cited obtaining social services as the most important reason for immigrating."

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Thats because when free healthcare flows like water from a tap your opinion is that it is a right and not an option. There is no reason to be concerned about something that you take for granted.

[jetranger7]

I Agree with Barbara4 on her comments entirely ! How can we ??? They better not get any, when I''m working fulltime and can''t afford it, something wrong with that picture!!! Maybe I need to think about leaving this country and going to Switzerland or Sweeden or Norway, I never hear of those countries having the problems we do back here, especially with their politicians,, why do we tolerate this ????

[rudy654-2009]

Posted by bennyblack1 at 10:02 PM

You must be a real history major with that cockamany story! Napolean owned all of Texas and the Southwest? Good grief! Go back to school.

[bennyblack1]

burneb;
well, there are more comments than just your own. And there are valid reasons WHY there should be no immigration reform. The only way immigration reform will work is if we gather all the illegal immigrants together, pull all the Americans out of Texas, New Mexico, and Southern California, then give them their own states. Then Mexico can annex these territories, while we enhance existing state border patrols from within the United States. It still won''t be enough. They won''t stop there. They will destroy those three states, and then move North and East. Then it will turn into a third world welfare country. I''ll be moving to Sweden. See ya!

[burneb]

Clinton and Edwards are probably right. Health care problems for illegals, at least the kind described in this article, would be best addressed by a comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship.

The author says this is unlikely to happen anytime soon, but the main obstacle is the dumbness and pandering of Republican congressmen. They mindlessly approve every harmful thing Bush wants with lockstep robovotes, but when he tried something actually smarter on immigration reform, Republican congressmen shot it down.

They like to pretend they are going to send back 12 million illegals, or shut them out of our society, when many of the biggest campaign contributors for Republicans are company owners/execs that want them here for cheap docile labor. Not going to happen. These same congressmen will just try to perpetuate the same insane system.

Immigration reform CAN happen soon, if we throw those congressmen out, who just create worse problems at taxpayer expense.

[barbaraf4]

How can we possibly justify giving health insurance to illegals while withholding it from working class American citizens and their families?

[bennyblack1]

hmmm. No comments.

[bennyblack1]

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[cfin5]

......AND I WANT OUR TWO BORDER AGENTS OUT OF PRISON AND THAT ATTORNEY "NIFONG" SUTTON TAKING THEIR PLACE FOR LYING!!!

[bennyblack1]

The kicker? There ain''t a d.a.m.n. thing I can do about it. I have to sit here and watch it, then eventually become a victim of it. I''m not a victim yet, but it''s shortly coming.

[bennyblack1]

It is stories like this and many others that have me so mad. You folks that are blind and don''t see what is going on around you have locked yourselves into your own routines. I see what is going on. Illegal aliens are mixing in with the gang bangers, pimps, drug dealers, and prostitutes in the United States which only strengthens their front against us as true Americans. They also mix with anti-American Americans. They are creating a new generation of home grown anti-American terrorists, and persuading our children to become as such. That should make any American mad. But, no...Americans are stoned on the drugs they buy from them, thrilled with the *** their prostitutes bring them, rich from the bribes they present, and imprisoned by blackmail from activities that they have been involved in.

[cfin5]

"We the People" here in America shouldn''t have to pay one dime for the ILLEGAL aliens problems with their health. Mexico''s got oil, so send them a bill for the cost on any issue in their regards. If they won''t pay it, then figure the cost into the US Dollar-Mexican Peso exchange rate.......Oh, while your at it, don''t forget all the fines, court costs, etc........Politicians make everything so hard to figure out. Who is their constituency, not to mention which country they belong too?

[bennyblack1]

It''s the illegal aliens who carried on the tradition of rebellion against the United States and what rightfully belongs to it. Illegal aliens from Mexico still make trouble with 3 major drug routes and several minor routes from Texas, New Mexico and California all ending up in Las Vegas where my brother died at the end of a drug deal gone bad. He was sick and in need of medical care, and his Mexican compadre drug runners left him to die at the hands of his drug dealer, who shortly came and finished him off. My brother, was at one time, a highly decorated soldier from Viet Nam. He was destroyed by drugs. His wife was a Mexican, and his friends were her relatives. And they were the ones ultimately responsible for his death.

[bennyblack1]

Well, sadly your history is mistaken. If you remember correctly, Napolean at one time owned the entire territory from the north to the south of the United States, dead in the Middle Southern tip of Texas to Washington State. Napolean sold the entire territory to the United States for $18,000,000. This was the famous "Louisiana Purchase." We didn''t invade it. We bought it from who was, at the time, the greatest military/leader/king in the world. Mexico did not have an interest in it except to party and siesta, and make trouble. If you remember correctly, the Mexicans were forcibley evicted from Florida, California, and Texas for their mischieviousness and diabolical behavior. They made no investment in it, and still have no real investment in it. The Mexicans who were honorable, and became American citizens by serving in the Armed Forces, I have no problem with. It''s their illegal alien compadres and family I have a problem with.

[mediapreachr]

Seal the border now.In a small island-Hispanola-There are 2 countries-Haiti and the Dominican Republic,there are border guards and towers.All this talk about security amounts to nonsense if we,as a country have an unguarded border.Whoever doesn''t want to assimilate can go back anytime.

[mediapreachr]

We are commenting,but don''t have the whole picture.
Most of the illegal immigrants are hispanic-from mexico or South America.
There is no middle class in S.America,just poor and the very rich.
Their population is exploding and the uber rich have found the solution-send them over the border in US.
For more than 40 years Mexico''s main export is poverty.Have you ever been to Mexico City?They are calling these people-their own poor,half-breeds.
In less than 20 years USA will look like a third world country.