There are practical concerns with essentially unregulated immigration, and taxpayers footing the bill for cartfuls of Sprite and Twinkies on SNAP benefits. America’s poor have free access to the best health system in the world. 😉
Essentially unregulated immigration. That's why dozen of my co-workers, who pay hundreds of thousands of dollars annually in income taxes, have to go back to their country of origin every 24 months, sit around for 3 weeks to wait for someone to stamp their visa booklet, while we have to arrange to do meetings at 6 AM or 8 PM, then return. That unregulated immigration system?
I needed a hip replacement. It was very obvious. I went to the ortho, bypassing my GP. He looked at the X-ray that was taken that day, sent me down for a CT-scan, which was done in 15 minutes, it showed up on the computer, he said yep, are you free 2 weeks from Wednesday, I said yes, I went in, had the procedure done, inpatient with an overnight stay, and had 4 weeks of PT.
Total out of pocket for me - $1500. Paid with pre-tax money.
Let me know when any of America's poor get that level of care.