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I am sure that we should "remedy this problem".

Are you prepared to send them away in labor, bleeding, having heart attacks?

If you are not, and if you are not just cost-shifting, what "remedy" do you propose?

First. Health care is really expensive. If you truly want to cut the costs, stop treating people who can't pay.

Second, illegal aliens are a separate issue. True, they're forcing the closing of emergency rooms and other emergency services, but health care costs would be high anyway.

Third. Tort reform would reduce costs by a fair amount but it would reduce medical care to a bigger crap-shot than presently. There are an awful lot of greedy and incompetent doctors out there - as well as greedy and incompetent lawyers.

It's extremely doubtful that any of the above will come to pass. People will never see it as fair that you should get only what you can pay for on this fundamental, life-and-death issue nor will we be willing to militarize the border and deport the millions of illegals. Doing so would require a full-fledged war with Mexico - and maybe several other countries as well.

Health insurance costs are like a balloon. Squeeze them somewhere, and they'll bulge out somewhere else.

Actually, the situation is worse than that. Since government meddling has over the years discouraged people from becoming health care practitioners, the supply has been reduced and so the costs have increased even beyond the amount predicted by the 'squeezed balloon' metaphor.

Stabilizing the system (largely by getting government OUT) isn't going to be pleasant for anyone, but until the country can do so it will be living on borrowed time.

I agree with you, it has to stop somewhere. Shifting the cost to the federal government instead of the states is still American taxpayer money, and for the life of me I can't accept the attempted brainwashing of America by the politicians who keep telling us that we must pay for this mess. Look at the figures. If they're already here by the millions, next year there will be a million more, and on and on, no relief in sight with our President and Congress salivating for hispanic votes.

We are the cash cow for the third world, and until we elect a President and a Congress who has the guts to put a stop to it, we'll go broke, the takers will outnumber the givers.

It's not only health care for illegals we're forced to pay for, homeowners will have to cough up more money to build new schools (this is on the coming Los Angeles ballot) because illegals are causing our schools to burst at the seams, and education to American kids takes a nose dive. They're collecting welfare and food stamps, and some even manage to get housing assistance money. Why should American taxpayers be forced to pay for all this when we're already struggling with the highest taxation in history?

Clinton started it, and Bush is continuing it. Our American culture is fading into the woodwork, and we're becoming the new slaves of America.