Healthcare
While we have citizens, including lower middle income U.S. citizens who cannot afford healthcare, can we continue to give free healthcare to all who are here illegally – and coming every day? The federal government which controls immigration, should control immigration. I have seen personally where a patient here illegally is given free healthcare and expensive surgery (the third of three brothers who flew to the U.S. with a congenital heart condition for years that just became a problem when he arrived in the U.S.), while a carpenter with a large mortgage and young family was denied it and his entire family had to pony up funds for a surgery before the doctor was allowed to operate – and then he lost his house because of the bills. I support healthcare for all who need it, and religious and non profit clinics, but, unless immigration is controlled, or more money comes from the sky, one country cannot handle the millions coming across the border last year and this year, and be able to take care of our legal citizens. The buck ends somewhere. Additionally, doctors are leaving the practice in droves, they cannot handle seeing 20 patients a day, each for 15 minutes and no more. Right now there are not enough doctors in the U.S. to deal with the needs.