Any government healthcare plan would need to account for undocumented people since hospitals can not(and should not) turn people away who need life saving care. Someone has to pay for that care, and guess what? It's already the government paying, this would just be formalizing it.
No one up there said anything about unlimited healthcare or anything more than just emergency care. This is just more right wing circle jerking over nothing.
On MMO-C we learn that Anti-Fascism is locking arms with corporations, the State Department and agreeing with the CIA, But opposing the CIA and corporate America, and thinking Jews have a right to buy land and can expect tenants to pay rent THAT is ultra-Fash Nazism. Bellingcat is an MI6/CIA cut out. Clyburn Truther.
VA Hospital is broke, but ya.....lets complain and prevent something completely unrelated out of anger and jealousy?
or you trying to imply that we should not spend the other 4 trillion dollars in our budget till the VA is fixed?
I mean is 200-300 billion a year not enough for vets? (actual cost in 2016 were 273 billion)
Our current future liability for current/retired military is 2.8 trillion dollars.
Maybe vets should finally let them fix the program by getting rid of the VA and just paying for their healthcare in the private sector.
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Sorry speak for yourself.
I don't mind carrying people who NEED HELP.
As does the majority of the people in this country.
So let me get this straight, the govt should only fix one problem before moving on to the next?
Good lets fix Medicare before we get to the VA. They should defund the VA till Medicare gets fixed. Sounds fair under your logic right?
Man good to know you never ran/managed anything in your entire life.
I could only imagine how long a company/organization would last under your leadership.
Wait so immigrants are now akin to people breaking into your home....??
Hey stretch, nice try.
Sorry but since when do you get to pick and choose each tax dollars you pay and their use.
Fine I don't want to pay for illegal wars and corporate welfare for foreign owned companies... Can I use that money for immigrants instead?
Can I use my money to pay for my father's healthcare instead of some vets?
There is plenty of money there l, how about we spend it actually helping people?
Failure to invest in immigrants with such low population growth and retiring baby boomers is a huge risk. The benefits outweigh the negative impacts
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
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https://www.propublica.org/article/s...t-sexist-memes
Wanna know why folks don't support more funding for CBP/ICE without structural change and reform?
This shit right here.
Members of a secret Facebook group for current and former Border Patrol agents joked about the deaths of migrants, discussed throwing burritos at Latino members of Congress visiting a detention facility in Texas on Monday and posted a vulgar illustration depicting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez engaged in oral sex with a detained migrant, according to screenshots of their postings.
In one exchange, group members responded with indifference and wisecracks to the post of a news story about a 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant who died in May while in custody at a Border Patrol station in Weslaco, Texas. One member posted a GIF of Elmo with the quote, “Oh well.” Another responded with an image and the words “If he dies, he dies.”
Funny that you think I am the only one contributing...how cute. My little dent is more than enough to give away in waste to the military and to throw at the black hole that is the VA.
You know there is hundreds of million tax payers right?
If done right immigrants are a net positive to the economy. But a particular party is more worried about them becoming voters than getting them paying taxes the legal way
Reread my comment. I specifically said, "The hospital is not going to foot the bill."
I also said, "the lab has to eat the cost."
I am referring to sendout laboratories that are not a department specifically of the hospital. If a hospital sends tests to a lab and the lab bills the insurance, but the insurance doesn't pay 100%, then the patient gets the remainder of the bill. If the patient doesn't pay - the lab eats the cost. The lab can't turn around and bill the hospital. If the lab does that - the hospital will drop that lab as their preferred lab and start using someone like Neogenomics, Quest, or Labcorp. The hospital will NEVER foot the bill - you are correct. All the lab can do is send the bill to collections. If the patient is an illegal, then they won't care if they are sent to collections. Therefore - the bill is never paid.
We could if cities invested properly with longer term views and had the political will to address the problem. The thing is that most are looking in the very short term and trying to make it someone else's problem to deal with.
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Also, thank the Republicans for blowing up the deficit by increasing spending while cutting revenue.
Personal and government finances aren't equal and are handled differently.