It would behoove every sick person in the world to high tail it over here as fast as they can crawl for that opportunity!
“It would behoove every sick person in the world to high tail it over here as fast as they can crawl for that opportunity!”
Especially Mexico...here’s their ‘public option’ of healthcare...another joke!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2342241/posts
[snip]Mexico still has a long way to go in terms of quality of care. Mexico only spends 6.2 percent of GDP on health care, about $97 billion, compared to 16 percent of GDP spent in the United States. That works out to $527 per each person a year compared to 7,290 in the United States.
There is one doctor to every 500 people in Mexico compared to one to 416 in the United States. Life expectancy is 76 years, two years lower than in the U.S. There are four main options for health care insurance. Just under half of people are expected to be covered under the people’s insurance plan put in place in 2004.
An employer based system currently serves 40 percent of the population that makes up the working class. Government workers have their own plan. Less than five percent of people pay for private health care. A fifth of Mexicans, the poorest, are exempt from paying for health insurance. After that one pays according to income. State and federal governments also contribute to the system. Health care quality and access vary dramatically depending on the state.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Poorer states tend to have more problems, longer lines, more complaints, more stock-outs (ph) of drugs, et cetera. Things have been progressively getting better, but this remains a big challenge for the system.
PILGRIM: Now despite the reform, inefficiencies remain. It’s estimated that Mexico loses more than $1 billion a year because of a lack of coordination among the different health care systems,
So much for Borders, language, culture.
When the illegal immigrants get citizenship, would it not pay us to go where they came from?