The people of the USA are being denied health care, while paying for care of people from other countries. The people of the USA are being abused, and they must cry out. Congress has health care, and the people do not.
Nobody is denied health care, it just isn’t free.
The issue is and always has been health insurance.
I believe instead of trying to find ridiculous ways to somehow have expensive health care become magically “free”, or get everyone covered by so-called “universal coverage” that will cost many of us in huge taxes, that the cost of health care itself be affordable.
The sad fact is there is plenty of money and with tort reform and other issues addressed, there could be a system of reasonably priced effective private insurance with free clinics and emergency care for the very poor.
But as long as we are all taxed to death with huge chunks coming out of our paychecks- money that could be paying off personal debt, paying for health care, etc, instead the government wastes billions and billions of dollars every year. If I had the money I’d run a full page ad in every paper and rip congress a new one over what they are doing with our money. Maybe it would wake up enough people to make something happen.
I am also bothered by an insurance industry that seems at odds with a person’s best interests- perhaps it should be more like an employee-owned business where groups can pool money for effective coverage, rather than a company whose best interest as a company is to not pay claims in order to be more profitable.