Bill to improve health care…in Mexico!

wehategringos.com ^ | February 7th, 2008 | Brad

[rolling_stone]

I met someone who years ago tried to sell insurance to the Mexican Government, he said it wouldn’t work because all the bosses wanted their mordida or cut of the action, thus raising prices to untolerable levels.

[rolling_stone]

also see section 502

[ears_to_hear]

It might be that we all need to slip into Mexico and set up housekeeping.

We could live large there and still have more say in how the USA is run than we have here

[Xenalyte]

Please stop yelling.

[vharlow]

I expect this would be different...selling insurance coverage to average citizens or business enterprises to cover their employees. There’s no reason Mexican agents couldn’t earn commissions as do insurance agents up here. that’s just the usual cost of doing business. If insurance companies couldn’t do well there, they wouldn’t sell...as they don’t in some states here where government mandates have made it difficult to compete with HMO’s and things. Businesses like insurance companies rarely go somewhere they cannot reasonably profit, and states or governments who interfere with profit don’t have good market solutions for things like this.

[Hardastarboard]

I suspect this post is BS, but if it’s not, I can almost hear the liberal “logic” behind it. “Since they’re coming here anyway, why wouldn’t we want to improve their health before they get here so they can be more productive “citizens”?” Which of course makes me want to slap anyone who says that kind of crap.

[Eroteme]

When I’m able to prove what some of the elites are trying to do to us, it helps wake them up. Sometimes they’ll still say, “But the Republicans are worse,” but I know I’ve made them think.

And sometimes, they do more than just think—they start doing some research, and that’s when you can see the light go on.

This is exactly what we need more of. One by one, in our own circles, with offerings of fact minus the ridicule. It works. If nothing else, helping people to shake the blind certainty habit is a gift all it's own aside from politics.

[MizSterious]

Or maybe you haven't read this little gem:

(c) Sense of Congress Regarding Bilateral Partnership on Health Care- It is the sense of Congress that the Government of the United States and the Government of Mexico should enter into a partnership to examine uncompensated and burdensome health care costs incurred by the United States due to legal and illegal immigration, including--

(1) increasing health care access for poor and under served populations in Mexico;

(2) assisting Mexico in increasing its emergency and trauma health care facilities along the border, with emphasis on expanding prenatal care in the United States-Mexico border region;

(3) facilitating the return of stable, incapacitated workers temporarily employed in the United States to Mexico in order to receive extended, long-term care in their home country; and

(4) helping the Government of Mexico to establish a program with the private sector to cover the health care needs of Mexican nationals temporarily employed in the United States.

Source, with thanks to Raybbr. (Emphasis is mine.)

[Eroteme]

From what I can see, all this bill does is set up a study group to talk among themselves and collect a paycheck for it, so yeah, it's a lousy bill and lousy use of our money, but no, it does not provide for health insurance for Mexico.

On the other hand, it could actually have some positives. Best I can tell, the studies will be aimed at establishing some way to get the Mexican gov't to pay us for the health care we give its citizens, and some method of sharing communicable disease info in an effort to stop it.

Since Mexico doesn't have much of a problem with Americans coughing TB all over their schools and hospitals, I suspect that the whole "sharing" posture is just diplomatic langage, and we're trying to pry loose the info we need to keep from turning the US border cities into sanitariums.

[Eroteme]

I read that as trying to get the Mexicans to pony up some part of their enormous share of the costs their citizens incur.

[MizSterious]

There are a LOT of lifetime Democrats who are as conservative as you or me. When possible, we need to reach out to them. The Democrat party today is a totally different animal than it was in the times before Jimmah Carter.

[MizSterious]

I think part of it is. But note that it says we will be working in partnership to increase access to medical care. So this isn’t going to be on Mexico’s dime, it’s going to be on ours. The original poster has it right: this is another money pit, supported by John McCain (among others).

[zip]

ping

[Saveedra]

Curious, perhaps we should expect an Obama/McCain ticket this Fall, oops, McCain would have to be the president and Obama VP..one must always respect ones elders. :>