OPINION: Remove Illegal immigrants from Healthcare

Ventura County Star (California)
September 2, 2009 Wednesday
OPINION: Remove Illegal immigrants from Healthcare

Just do the math and the proposed healthcare plan unavoidably comes out "rationing." If it's going to be rationed, we have to find a way to reduce the number of beneficiaries. Let's start with illegal immigrants. If they are not specifically excluded from the healthcare reform bill - or whatever it is called this week - they will be included by default.

Illegals overburden our medical system to the tune of billions each year, costs that are passed on to us citizens. That's not only a recurring cost, but a cost that is growing rapidly because of sustained illegal immigration and the growth in the number of children being born to illegals. If half of what the millions of illegals cost us each year in medical bills were spent to deport them, we could effectively stem the tide. And, guess what? We could do that now without a healthcare reform bill.

The same is true with reducing the inefficiencies and fraud in Medicare. That, too, can be done now, without a healthcare reform bill.

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