Date: December 28, 2008


As Goes California, So Goes the Nation?Economic Downturn Threatens California's Health Care System

California has often been in the vanguard of trends that come to affect the whole country. It is looking now at bankruptcy. But who will bail it out?

California politicians, including Governor Schwartzenegger, have shown neglect in managing the money given to them in good faith by the taxpayers. They are now dilly-dallying in a show of "chicken" as the state goes ever nearer to complete meltdown.


A solution, in part, has been staring them in the face for years.

Illegal immigration has swelled the deficit by affording them the same benefits, or better than, that of citizens.

The schools are flooded with illegals who usually cannot even read in their own native languages, but are provided English as second language courses.

These courses are not successful, for the most part, but they are costly. Who suffers are the citizen children who must yield up a teacher’s time to try to teach someone who cannot understand the minimum of language.


The health care system is another costly drain by illegal aliens. No numbers are given as to how many are in the system known as Medi-Cal.

However, it has long been evident that illegals use the hospitals as primary care, a very costly proposition. They know that they can go to hospitals and not be turned away.

When asked about this, many hospital administrators and doctors professed a hands-off stance, saying that their only responsibility was to the patients.

Some of these same doctors and administrators are probably those out of job when their hospitals went broke and had to shut down. Just more of those whose altruism got in the way of economic common sense.

Meanwhile, the man who had a heart attack had to wait too many minutes as he was being transported to a hospital further away that was still in operation.


Many writers have written about the perils of allowing people to breech our borders and be folded into our social systems, even Social Security.

[u][b]They have been made pariahs by the “mainstream mediaâ€