[angelcindy]

JUAN AND OBAMA WILL MAKE SURE THIS HAPPENS..

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

As Rush said this morning, our principle task now as conservatives appears to be electing conservative Senators and Representatives as a bulwark against the Executive branch, whoever that might be.

[nmh]

You, as a U.S. taxpayer would STILL GET THE BILL FOR IT!

Since when do Hispanics have oodles of money to finance themselves? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ?

[MizSterious]

Another thread was posted on this topic yesterday, from another url, but the thread was removed. In that thread, the bill and relevant portion of it was included. Anyone know which bill this was—when using this story for an argument, it’s always nice to be able to quote from the original bill.

[freekitty]

Global thinking

[org.whodat]

What would Americans think, then, of a member of Congress who introduced legislation, not to improve health care in the United States, but to improve health care in Mexico?

The two Juan's have moved in together.

[Politicalmom]

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[ovrtaxt]

I suppsoe he wants to fund this with Ameros too.

Here comes the NAU folks. Maybe I will move to Costa Rica after all.

[Greg F]

Vote Huckabee.

[vharlow]

I’m not sure this would be a bad thing. Designed by insurance companies, geez....isn’t that how our present plans are designed, and aren’t people getting coverage through those insurance companies, and doesn’t someone have to pay those insurance companies for the coverage? What would it hurt if Mexicans were buying insurance from our insurance companies? They have traditionally done a pretty good job for us. It’s lawsuits and mandated coverages people don’t care about that are drive costs up, and cost shifting from those without coverage to those who have it. But, if Mexicans are covered, those costs won’t be shifted to you and me anymore.

[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

[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]

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.

[zip]

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