I don't know why so many people are leaving California. I thought I saw somewhere that your economy is booming. I know your crime is down. Shipping companies are relocating to Houston because your ports are too crowded and you have a labor shortage.
As for hospitals closing on the border, on a couple threads in the past about hospitals closing it was brought out that new hospitals had opened in the area. The new hospital gets the patients who can afford to pay for the new equipment or who have good insurance. The better doctors are attracted to the newer hospitals. The old hospitals are left with the people who don't have insurance or can't afford the more expensive services.
It's not that the hospitals close because they have too many illegals, it's because they don't have enough rich folk.
Our local hospital just implemented a policy that requires even the insured patient put down $250 before treatment. You know why? Too many indigent and illegal, uninsured hitting the hospital up without paying and so EVERYONE must bear their costs.
But you know what? If I had to use their services, I wouldn't pay it. Know why? Guess how many illegals have to put it up? Guess how much of the hospital's operating budget is for "indigent" care? Now guess exactly who pays THAT bill? IMO, I've already paid it once.
So you're OK with crime as long as there are "rich folk" to pay for it?
--Boot Hill
I'll tell you why. It has a bad case of the Mexicans. They are voting for liberal politicians that are bleeding the state dry. They are turning California into another Mexico.
I thought I saw somewhere that your economy is booming. I know your crime is down.
Recorded crime is down because we are putting record numbers of criminals in jail. About two million of them.
The crime of illegally entering the United States is up. But it isn't recorded if they don't catch the creep.
The new hospital gets the patients who can afford to pay for the new equipment or who have good insurance.
Really, how does that work? Are the new hospitals refusing to treat illegals?
It's not that the hospitals close because they have too many illegals, it's because they don't have enough rich folk.
That's right because, like I said, illegals are driving good people away.
That's what crime does, it destroys wealth. And illegals are criminals.
"It's not that the hospitals close because they have too many illegals, it's because they don't have enough rich folk."
You really have no concept of healthcare finance do you?
Sure, now explain why my grand daughter had a 13 hour wait to get into the emergency room with a broken collar bone, in beautiful downtown Palm Springs, CA