If the people of SF are poor, homeless, etc., they already qualify for Medi-Cal. The elderly receive Medicare and if they are elderly and poor they are Medi-Medi's and they receive the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan free of charge if they make under $20K a year because Medi-Cal which used to cover prescriptions for the medi-medi's now picks up the deductible for the medi's...
It's the middle class that gets squeezed by rising cost of health care, but a lot of that is due to the high cost of insurance doctors have to deal with and the high number of illegals who run up the hospital costs causing hospitals to raise their fees to cover overhead.
If the people of SF are poor, homeless, etc., they already qualify for Medi-Cal. The elderly receive Medicare and if they are elderly and poor they are Medi-Medi's and they receive the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan free of charge if they make under $20K a year because Medi-Cal which used to cover prescriptions for the medi-medi's now picks up the deductible for the medi's...
It's the middle class that gets squeezed by rising cost of health care, but a lot of that is due to the high cost of insurance doctors have to deal with and the high number of illegals who run up the hospital costs causing hospitals to raise their fees to cover overhead.Exactly what I was talking about from a slightly different point of view.
You are correct about the illegals; they suck out a ton of money from our system. And, from what I have read, they send (as a total in the country) BILLIONS "back home" to Mexico.
Send'em ALL back to their "homeland," children too, even if mama did manage to cross the border here just in time to drop her first - fourth on U.S. soil.
THAT law must change. I think we are one of the few or ONLY nations in the world that allows ANY child who HAPPANS to be born here of foreign parents, ESPECIALLY ILLEGALS (choke!) to be American citizens.