Illegal Aliens, Health Care and Amnesty: Medical costs are just a fraction of the issue
19th September 2009
Steve Sailer just loves to ask the questions nobody else dares to ask — or answer.
This happens every single day right now: an illegal immigrant roofer falls off a roof and is hurt. He doesn’t have health insurance. Is he denied health care?
Of course not. America is a civilized country and we won’t let suffering people within our borders go untreated. So, an ambulance rushes him to a hospital emergency room and he spends as many nights in the hospital as it takes to treat him. He pays nothing because he has no money. The roofing contractor doesn’t pay either (his motto: privatize profits, socialize costs). The illegal alien’s cost is simply added to the bills paid by people with insurance.
No, the big issues about illegal aliens, health care, and amnesty revolve around the indirect effects on the birthrate that nobody is supposed to think about in modern America.
If the roofer eventually goes home to Latin America because there is no construction work anymore in America without fathering any children in the U.S., then the costs he imposes on us are finite. If, however, he fathers a number of anchor babies within the U.S., then the costs become long term and difficult to fully foresee.