re: #652 researchok

So you also believe we ought to pay for medical care for illegals?

My opinion:

Actually, we should have single payer, or at the very least a public nationwide insurance pool, aka, the “public option”. As for illegals, and anyone, for that matter, any humane and moral system must provide health care, or see to it that it is provided. Not doing so is to invite a public health problem.

To insist on a completely private system does not escape that shared burden. If emergency rooms are compelled at their own expense to treat people, regardless of payment, then we all end up paying for it anyway. If they are not so compelled, then it is not a society I want to be a part of. Such would be an immoral nation, and one with public health crises one after another, in due time.