Wow, listen to these guys responding to this thread. they are clueless
and yet you are not countering anything they have said.....does that mean you might be a tad clueless yourself?....just asking....
I've been on many threads expressing my views on this topic. I hear many responding to this OP attacking the dreamers like they are law breaking criminals that need to go back to their own country. Somebody who was brought here as a child, grew up here for the majority of their life, has only one country in their eyes. The lack of acknowledgement and awareness of the various elements of this situation on a simple human level is quite disgusting.
Know what is even more disgusting? People who were born here, because their parents were born here because their parents were born here and so on and so forth...and costs skyrocket so badly that if you get sick, you lose everything and wind up on the streets but when you go to ask for help because you, your parents, your great grandparents and their parents and so on and so forth paid into the system for hundreds of years and are told to get in back of the line because some asshole from another country waving a flag from that country and demanding their FREE STUFF gets put in first place and then you wind up dead under an overpass with maybe 3 bucks left on your debit card as those schmucks drive around in their new cars they park in their section 8 housing because they keep their kids HOME in order to stay in that section 8 housing. Oh, and your kids or grandkids have to work at McDs to put themselves thru college because Schmucks Kids get all the financial assistance. AND medical. AND housing. The money they don't have to pay does not go to THIS country. Nope. It goes to Mexico.
Hows that for disgusting?
The reason health care is so expensive (because it wasn't in 1970 when we paid the dr. cash per visit) The reason = HEALTH INSURANCE and FOR-PROFIT Health care Dr. Corps and Hospitals.
Health care should be mostly not-for-profit and we should move toward some version of single payer. They can still pay high wages, invest in innovation and research, they just don't have share holders and luxury suites at the stadium.
Health Insurance makes it necessary for every Medical corp (doctors office) to hire a back office staff to take care of the overly complicated medical billing -- this never used to exist. Also, hospitals are now driven by profit over patient health because they answer to a board of directors and shareholders. This back office staff never existed before the eighties as billing was direct and simple. The more complicated they make billing (insurance, co-pay, medicare, medicare part D), the more doctors have to charge.
Hospitals need a separate building to staff their billing department.
And, when doctors know which procedures plans will pay for without question, they write orders and prescriptions for everything they can get away with.
Health care in U.S. is a corrupt business model. The consumer is often not a willing participate in the market-- emergency room/sudden illness -- you don't get to shop around for best prices. And hospitals keep their pricing secret-- unless you're paying cash and ask to know the cost up front.
The Health care lobby has blocked anything that would created a more completive and transparent pricing like the ability to purchase drugs from Canada. Or medical co-ops (not for profit state run).
The other reason -- technology. When you invent a pill that will offset a lifetime of bad choices (blood pressure and cholesterol) then you allow people to live around 5 years longer. These five to eight years are very expensive, and that cost is getting put onto my generation.