They've Lost the Plot

The other night, the Democratic presidential candidates all said they'd provide free health care to illegal immigrants. Not free emergency services, but free health care. Free in this case means paid for by the taxpayers. I don't get free health care and I'm a veteran who works for a living. I pay both health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket expenses because 1) I have a high deductible and 2) I order my own tests because most endocrinologists and gastroenterologists have no idea what they're doing.

When these socialists are not pandering to illegal immigrants, the same people also say

We have food deserts where poor people have a hard time getting groceries
Some people struggle to afford health insurance
Some people struggle to afford health care and medications
Migrants in detention centers aren't being taken care of
We have homeless people not being taken care of
Health care costs for Americans are steeply rising (which we can all agree on)

In other words, we're not even taking care of the people who are already here. Yet somehow, we'll take care of all of the people we're currently not taking care of, plus the millions who'll pour in over the border for free shit. The moderators should have asked the candidates how much they've paid out of their own pockets for other people's health care. In reality, it's going to come out of the pockets of the taxpayers. The cost is already so great that Warren Buffett called it "a hungry tapeworm on the American economy" as he teamed up with Jamie Dimon and Jeff Bezos to bring health care costs under control. I don't know what they're cooking up, but it probably doesn't involve adding a lot more non-paying users to the system.

I don't know the answer to health care costs for people already here, but it doesn't involve uncoupling goods and services from prices. Elective surgery like Lasik has gone down in price over the years. Food and shelter are just as important, if not more so, than health care for most people, and yet prices for those generally aren't regulated. Probably, solutions involve getting rid of middlemen, directing current cynicism in the direction of much of the useless health care available (e.g., expensive tests for healthy people with no risk factors), and finally officially ditching the myths about healthy whole grains and artery clogging saturated fat. It's probably no coincidence that after low-carb diets became popular, the rate of new cases of diabetes fell. That would be no thanks to help from our government.

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