JPF Home Page Forums Alan Grayson on Republican Health Care

Hi Scott,

Thanks for the response. I think the biggest thing I have against this is that those who can pay at all are paying for all those that can't, or won't. This is the public option. Everyone gets the same insurance but only taxpayers have to pay. That is why I made the list above of all those I don't want to pay for. I know I am paying some of their healthcare costs now but this would only make it much easier for them to abuse the system.

A quick answer on immigration. I have looked at the numbers too and there is no way a family of four with one member working under the table and the rest living off our generosity, ie foods stamps, free education for their children, free medical care at any hospital they walk into, and in a lot of cases welfare, can be a boon to our country. If you put him on the books at anywhere close to minimum wage the equation remains the same. If you add a few more children to that family it gets worse. Now add in the cost of all that are populating our prison system, all those that are in gangs and doing other illegal things we have to pay to police, and you will start to see what I am getting at. How to export them? We do not have enough workers on the books to do that without mobilizing the National Guard. That is what I suggest. It really isn't immigration, it is an invasion and should be treated as such. I agree that drying up the jobs by really punishing the companies and individuals that hire them would help. It would just take forever. We need to take our country back before it is too late. If we took some of the people on unemployment and trained them for border patrol it wouldn't be a bad idea either.

The only thing I have against non profit co-ops is that they would be unfair competition to the insurance companies and once they were driven out of business we would no longer have the option of using them. Other than the high cost of my insurance, driven there by the reasons I mentioned above, I like my health insurance. I like choosing my own Doctor, my own specialists, and the treatments I want to have. I work a lot of hours to be able to do this but I don't mind. I would mind if I didn't have those choices.