I don't object to allowing anyone, including illegal aliens, to buy health insurance. I said so in my first comment. I object to creating a reward for breaking the law.

Any moment now I expect to hear of yet another collapsing ailing city bridge, deteriorating waterworks, the underground pipes and eroding highway. Our cities are already exhibiting inward decay, but years of neglect by the very people who’s supposed to protect us do nothing? I have reiterated watch “The Crumbling of America” on the History (International) channel in the next few weeks and learn? This is where your tax dollars should be going? We must not allow the Administration as in previous times keep sending our precious tax dollars to other countries. These politicians are deaf, dumb and intentionally blind to the rigors our industrial nation is going through. Not just Democrats, but the Republicans have had their sticky fingers in the bad apple–SPECIAL INTEREST–barrel, where money is plentiful. It's like they are intentionally trying to turn our magnificent country into a third world nation, while making other cheap labor countries, on an even par with our sovereign society as US wages tumble? Then Again the Council of Foreign Relations have been amplifying its agenda of free movement of cheap labor through North America for years?

Most of these other lands have been at each others throats for centuries, so why do we expect any metamorphism into something any different? Only change can come from within, not by our nation expending billions of dollars, American lives? We must build our own borders fences, tall and strong and meant to keep out drug dealers, criminal aliens, terrorists and the never ending tracks of illegal aliens. Our politician’s noses are involved in too much foreign policy, while our aging infrastructure implodes. Trillions of dollars are spirited out the country, while we gain little in return. Washington–MUST–start giving back to the jobless American worker by placing a 5 year moratorium on all immigration, even legal? The next politicians should deliver us from any new sinister path to citizenship or better referred to as BLANKET AMNESTY? Follow the “Rule of Law” and not twist it into something else for their own convenience, as it will come back to haunt them at the voting booth. Unless ACORN steps-in with another fed contract and handles sign-ups for the ballot box? In that case will still see absentee ballots for the deceased people, pets and anybody who has learned that you need no government picture ID to sign on to vote.

The 1986 immigration reform bill dismally failed last time and all we inherited was 5 million illegal immigrants that still keep on coming with their impoverished hands out. Anti-Illegal immigrant forces are growing in numbers to stop another travesty. They acknowledge it could end up costing billions, perhaps even trillions of dollars. Nationwide we have seen the advent of closing hospitals and emergency rooms that have been submerged everyday by swarms by penniless foreigners and their families. Yes! We need health care reform. Americans are dying, going bankrupt , falling under the spell of debt collectors. The special interest lobbyists are causing mass hysteria by lying to the people. Many insurance companies are under this bombardment in television, radio and mass media. Their Status quo wants no change to their profits or high flying CEO's making millions of dollars. on patients backs? I want health care reform, for the sake of my step daughter who died of Cancer, because the insurers said it was a pre-existing condition and they couldn't continue to insure her?

It has become an enigma–THAT THE EMPLOYERS WHO HIRE THEM-LEAVE THE MAJORITY OF SICK PEOPLE ON THE STEPS OF EMERGENCY ROOMS. SO THAT THEIR RESPONSIBILITY ENDS THERE? THEY DRIVE AWAY WITH A CLEAR CONSCIOUS? THEN IS LEFT FOR THE TAXPAYERS CHECK BOOK TO PAY THE BILL? THOSE EMPLOYERS SHOULD BE HUNTED DOWN AND HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR EVERY CENT. We have already been warned by the census bureau of overpopulation in the not too distant future. WE now have a very unique deterrent called E-Verify, that is a part of the SAVE ACT and our lawmakers should stop procrastinating and make it permanent for every worker? Washington knows their walking on quicksand, if the try to under fund or spirit away E-Verify this time around? The corrupting influences from the special interest lobby, have failed to induce many lawmakers to table E-Verify. In our future it could have many other uses other than extracting unauthorized labor from the workplace. Once fully installed it could check state drivers license applicants, insurance, school and higher education registrations and hospital admittances.

Americans have been unknowingly paying taxes to underwrite subsidies for the illegal population for decades. This is the biggest draw to American jobs, because the employers who hire them are sentient that taxpayers will foot the bills for education, health food stamps, housing and other government benefit consignments that even as citizens are denied. Keep the phone calls coming at 202-224-3121 LOOK FOR ANSWERS AT NUMBERSUSA, JUDICIAL WATCH & OVERPOPULATION AT CAPSWEB? These websites can identity politicians who actually work for the American people and others whose immigration grading level is unsatisfactory to stay in office? Have you heard about any large ICE raids lately? ICE got the order to cease and desist from the motley Democratic leadership. They are also using their influence to either weaken the federal training program 287 G that gives local police federal right to hold for questioning suspicious individual’s immigration status and to rescind the no-match-letter capability in determining a person’s right to work?

Then you would want all of those entities to compete fairly, right? If the government can only be cheaper by putting regulations on private companies, then that's not really the plan you want, is it? If it is, then I ask why the government doesn't provide bread and gas? Clearly it can do it for cheaper if it over-regulated the private businesses.

Ah yes, I'm racist. Thanks for reminding me.

Wouldn't it be dysfunctional and irrational to tell people who want to come into our country to do so legally, and then reward those who come illegally with entitlements?

Paul, that's the quote of the day for me.

Why on earth would I want a level playing field for public and private insurance carriers? I want the best healthcare, not health insurance, for the least cost. If the government can do that, then they should do it. If non-profits can do it, then I want non-profits. If for profit companies can do it, then I want for profit companies. We were told back in the 1980s that for profit health insurance would provide better healthcare at lower costs because the market place is just better than the mainly non-profit providers that dominated healthcare insurance. This experiment has been an absolute failure at fulfilling that promise. Successful countries like successful people discard failure and adopt things that work.

The first thing to remember is that insurance companies do not provide any healthcare. All they do is act as the middleman between doctors and hospitals (supply) who actually provide healthcare and the public (demand) who use and pay for healthcare services. This middle man function provides very little value added to the quality and cost effectiveness of the actual healthcare received by the public. The fact of the matter is that insurance companies have a conflict of interest between their profits and the quality and cost effectiveness of actual healthcare provided the public.

*This is not private insurance that I have; it's mandated and run by the government. There is also private insurance in Korea. If I want, I can also sign up for that on top of what I have now.

dr.e

From what I understand, car and auto insurance companies are regulated at the state level. That doesn't prohibit them from operating across state lines (and neither are health insurance companies prohibited) but then they may have to provide separate programs to satisfy the various requirements of the states.

I actually disagree with many conservatives that the solution to our problems is to allow the federal government to supersede state regulation. That seems to go against state's rights which actually is an important part of conservatism, at least constitutional conservatism.

this is a states rights issue. Since the *practice* of health care is regulated by the states, they also have the right to regulate payment for health care

Thats actually a good point, and I'm inclined to agree. Doing it at the State level makes sense.

However, considering the infinitely much more serious disagreements we have with our friends on the right on these issues, not even worth mentioning.

Dorian