[mrustow]

Not one mention of illegal aliens? This "reporter" and his "editor" should both be fired.

Shhh! You're not permitted to mention that, and at the rate things are going, you may soon be liable to arrest for such statements.

[Paladin2b]

Look, I don't want to minimize the illegal immigrant part of this equation, but suggesting that without them these LA ER docs would be sitting around twiddling their thumbs is ridiculous. My guess is we'd still be talking about the problem. Plenty of malingerers and free-lunch types within our own underclass, white and black.

The biggest lie that Hillary & Co. tried to pull back in 1993-4 when they tried to "reform" health care was to insist that health care costs for the uninsured poor would simply extrapolate from the costs to care for the middle class. BUT THEY DON'T...poor people get sicker or claim to be sicker A LOT MORE than middle class folks, mostly because, as this article manages to say at one point, they indulge in some really unhealthy behavior and don't bother to reform their lives.

The more I see, the more I realize the old Puritans were right: earthly poverty is as much a sign of moral failing as it is a consequence of circumstances beyond one's control.