Foreigners using host country's healthcare

Foreigners taking advantage of a neighboring society's policy on helping those who need healthcare to get it, because their home country is inadequate for them.

If you listen to right-wing propaganda, you'll probably assume it's about Mexicans coming to the US. But the reality is, much like a lot of the conservative propaganda out there, the exact opposite.

www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july-dec09/mexico_12-28.html

1,000,000 American retirees live in Mexico, largely to be near affordable healthcare. You won't hear that simple fact ever spoken on fox.

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Quick look at how the US stacks up against the rest of the industrialized world. So, lines sloping up are good. The US certainly is a superlative, but not in the way that opponents of improving US healthcare suggest.



From http://blogs.ngm.com/.a/6a00e0098226918833012876674340970c-800wi

To keep this in perspective, the Bush tax cuts cost 2 1/2 times as much as the House Democrats' healthcare reform bill. With the key difference that the tax cuts are taking taxes from low and middle income earners and giving it to the rich, where the reform bill is projected to be completely covered by its savings, and end up reducing the deficit.

Remind me again why I'm some kind of communist, socialist, terrorist-loving anti-American for wanting to improve things in this country...