Below, when a moderator requested of the Democrat candidates, “Raise your hand if your government plan would provide [medical] coverage for undocumented immigrants,” all responded affirmatively.
For more details about Heartland’s report, see Medicare for All: More Taxes, Worse Health Care, and Much More Debt.
Incidentally, numerous illegal aliens have already come to the United States to mooch healthcare from American taxpayers. One of the most obnoxious cases was the several liver transplants performed on illegal alien Ana Puente whose aunt brought her to the U.S. from Mexico to get medical care. Puente’s attitude was one of entitlement, revealed when she remarked, “It doesn’t matter if I’m undocumented. They should take care of me at UCLA for the rest of my life because I’ve been there since I was a baby.”
In 2006, the Denver Post reported, “Hundreds of Mexican illegal immigrants are in Colorado not just for work but also for free medical care they say they can’t get back home.”
So there’s already a pattern in place of illegal aliens crossing the border to steal free healthcare from the beleaguered American taxpayer. The Democrats want to take it to the globalist extreme to get future voters and turn America into a socialist hellhole forever.
]]>TUCKER CARLSON: 2020 could be the first year that the Democratic Party nominates a self-described socialist for president. Even if they don’t, almost every Democratic candidate running right now has endorsed at least some socialist policies. What are these policies and maybe more important, how much would they cost and would they work? Is there any evidence they would?
Justin Haskins is editorial director and a research fellow at the Heartland Institute, and he joins us tonight to assess. So Justin, we want to take all policy ideas seriously. Clearly the people in charge have screwed up the country, so we’re open-minded always, but give us a sober analysis of some of the big policies these candidates are promoting. Would they make the country better?
JUSTIN HASKINS: No Tucker, unfortunately they would not make the country better: the vast majority of the policies being offered right now by the Democratic Party are going to be incredibly expensive. They have no way to pay for them, and the first one to talk about of course is Medicare for All.
A lot of people have heard that this is going to cost $32 trillion to $38 trillion dollars over the first 10 years, but what does it actually mean for middle-class people? They’re being told that they’re going to save thousands and thousands of dollars because they’re not going to have to pay expensive deductibles and co-pays and things like that, but here’s the truth: we just conducted a study at the Heartland Institute, and we found that middle-class Americans are going to get absolutely screwed by single-payer healthcare.
Forty million to 60 million American households are going to end up paying more in new federal taxes than they’re going to get back in healthcare benefits. People who make $75,000 to $100,000 a year are going to see their tax bills go up, we estimate by 12,000 to $15,000 per year. Those who earn $100,000 or more are going to see their tax bills go up on average by $20,000, and the more money you make, the worse it gets. So single-payer healthcare — there is absolutely no way to pay for that.
And that brings us to our second point: free healthcare for all illegal immigrants. This is one of the most ridiculous policies that has ever been proposed in American history. Here you have 11 million to 29 million illegal aliens here in the country right now, and that’s probably a conservative figure. Even if we assume we’re just going to pay out healthcare costs that match what we’re paying right now for Medicaid beneficiaries, we’re going to see costs goes up. Who’s going to pay for that?
CARLSON: May I stop you there? So you’re saying those costs will go up? Those are just the costs of paying for the healthcare of illegal aliens.
HASKINS: That’s right, and that’s just the start. I mean this is a big invitation to the world, to billions of people around the world — come here to America, we’re gonna pay for your healthcare. What’s to stop busloads or trainloads or planeloads of people with serious ailments from coming to the United States legally or illegally, and for us to be treating these people?
I mean this is this is total madness, and that’s why basically no other country in the entire world does something like that, so yes this is a crazy proposal from the left.
And the third big proposal is a federal jobs guarantee: now this might seem tame compared to the other things that we just talked about, but this is an incredibly dangerous proposal.
Not only is it going to be very expensive — four trillion to $44 trillion, according to the American Action Forum over a ten-year period, depending on how many people are in it. But in addition it’s going to indirectly give the federal government power over the entire labor market because if they’re offering people a living wage, anyone a living wage which could be $15, it could be $20, it could be $25 an hour it means whatever it means to the Democratic Party candidates.
If you’re offering that then how is a small business or a medium-sized business supposed to compete with the federal government? You’re going to have millions leaving their jobs in the private sector to go work for the federal government to earn $20 an hour and free health care and free paid family leave and all sorts of other things to take jobs that don’t necessarily need to exist. I mean this is crazy stuff.
CARLSON: It is crazy, and they’re all for it too.
For my money, the general innumerateness about world population growth as an immigration factor was the worst failing. The Democrats believe in open [...]]]>
For my money, the general innumerateness about world population growth as an immigration factor was the worst failing. The Democrats believe in open borders to the world and free healthcare to all comers — but do they know (or care?) that the number of humans on earth is now more than 7.7 billion, more than double that on the original Earth Day in 1970? Of those billions, many are poor and might like to live in Freebie America.
When a moderator requested of the candidates, “Raise your hand if your government plan would provide [medical] coverage for undocumented immigrants,” all responded affirmatively.
So how many world citizens would avail themselves of the abundant free stuff under a President Kamala Harris — one billion? Two?
The cartels that run the profitable border invasion would love to arrange a massive increase.
Foreigners have already transported themselves here illegally to mooch first-world healthcare at great cost to the unwilling American taxpayer. One memorable example was Mexican Ana Puente, who scrounged three liver transplants in California a decade ago when “The average cost of a liver transplant and first-year follow-up is nearly $490,000, and antirejection medications can run more than $30,000 annually.”
Now the Democrats want America to be the World’s Welfare Office rather than the national home of the citizens.
Tucker Carlson explained some of the memorable Democrat crazy talk:
]]>TUCKER CARLSON: Well, good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson Tonight. This is our last day in Kyoto, Japan. We’re having an interview with the President after the show. We will bring you the whole thing on Monday. We’ve been following closely what’s happening back in the homeland in the US.
Last night of course, marked the second straight Democratic primary debate. A lot of what passes for heavy hitters on the left were in attendance. Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders. On the question of immigration at least, they all seemed in total agreement.
[Video plays with mob chanting “No borders, no walls, no USA at all.”]
CARLSON: Sorry for the tape mixed up there. That was the party’s youth wing, Antifa, making pretty much the same point. But watch Father Pete Buttigieg — and this is the right tape — and Buttigieg, keep in mind is not only a mayor and a presidential candidate, but he’s a self-described moral leader like Mahatma Gandhi or Jackson Browne. Watch him explain it’s just wrong, morally wrong, to maintain international borders:
MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG: That criminalization, that is the basis for family separation, you do away with that, it’s no longer possible. Of course, it wouldn’t be possible anyway, in my presidency, because it is dead wrong.
CARLSON: Got that? Sneaking into someone else’s country can never be a crime. It doesn’t matter if you’re a Chinese spy, an MS13 gang member, a drug mule with 20 kilos of heroin on your back. It doesn’t matter if you’re a human trafficker with a stable of child prostitutes. You are welcome here. We won’t judge you.
In fact, we will gladly pay for your comprehensive medical care, whatever it takes. That’s how much we hate ourselves. Watch:
NBC LEGAL ANALYST SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: Raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants.
(Cheering and Applause)
CARLSON: Got that, Mr. and Mrs. American, you may be going broke trying to pay for your own family’s healthcare and many of you are, by the way, but now you get to pay for free healthcare for the rest of the whole world. Anyone who ignores our laws and sneaks in, you owe them benefits the second they get here. Got that, racist?
If you don’t like it, tough. The Democratic Party plans to disarm you. So you’re powerless. But Congressman Eric Swalwell promised to seize every semiautomatic rifle in this country.
CONGRESSMAN ERIC SWALWELL: I’m the only candidate on this stage calling for a ban and buyback of every single assault weapon in America.
CARLSON: That’s an actually actual Member of Congress. But wait, doesn’t the Constitution and a lot of these people are lawyer, so ask them this? Doesn’t the Constitution guarantee your right to keep and bear arms? Well, yes, the document says that. But once Bernie Sanders gets finished moving conservatives off Supreme Court, the left can do whatever it wants. Watch him explain:
SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS: I do not believe in packing the Court. We’ve got a terrible five four majority conservative court right now. But I do believe that constitutionally, we have the power to rotate judges to other courts and that brings in new blood into the Supreme Court.
CARLSON: Bernie Sanders talking about new blood, it’s all so great. But keep in mind, that’s not court packing. No, not even close. It’s court rotating. And that means getting rid of judges that Bernie Sanders doesn’t like, and installing judges who agree with Bernie Sanders. And that’s totally different.
The other candidates seemed on board with that or in any case, they were too busy attacking Joe Biden to notice what the old guy from Vermont was saying.
There was a lot to hit Biden on. Biden’s sex, his skin color, his sexual orientation. They’re all sins against the religion of wokeness. Plus, as Congressman Eric Swalwell helpfully pointed out, Joe Biden is really, really old.
SWALWELL: I was six years old when a presidential candidate came to the California Democratic Convention and said, “It’s time to pass the torch to a new generation of Americans.” That candidate was then Senator Joe Biden.
Joe Biden was right when he said it was time to pass the torch to a new generation of Americans 32 years ago, he is still right today. If we’re going to solve the issues of automation, pass the torch. If we’re going to solve the issues of climate chaos, pass the torch.
CARLSON: Got that old man? Joe Biden is a musty antique who ought to be eating soft food in Florida somewhere. And you know what else? He is a racist. A bitter elderly bigot. He is probably sitting in his den right now watching “Birth of a Nation” drinking Schlitz. Kamala Harris made that clear.
She started out by saying that Joe Biden is not a racist, meaning of course, he is definitely a racist.
SENATOR KAMALA HARRIS: I’m going to now direct this at Vice President Biden. I do not believe you are a racist, but you also work with them to oppose busing.
And, you know, there was a little girl in California, who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day, and that little girl was me.
CARLSON: Everything about that is fake. It’s hard to imagine what a disingenuous paragraph — where to begin. I mean, Kamala Harris implies that California schools were segregated in the 1970s? They were not. Some of us were there at the time.
Harris herself was not a civil rights hero, her father was literally a Stanford Economics Professor. She went to high school in Montreal, Canada. She was a child of privilege, if there ever was one.
As for forced busing, it’s amazing that anybody, particularly any Democrat would defend it. Busing didn’t work. It was an abject failure. Guess who hated it? Black families. It took black kids out of their neighborhoods, and it patronized them. It didn’t raise anybody’s scores in the end, busing didn’t work. Honest people on the left admit that.
Brookings admitted that. The only people who liked busing then and now are rich liberals, the ones totally insulated from the effects of their failed and stupid social policy.
Everyone else in this country, 90 percent of Americans, according to Gallup, polling at the height of busing, and that’s 90 percent of both black and white Americans, thought busing was awful. So good call Democrats. Run on that. More busing. Joe Biden is a racist.
Here’s our nominee Kamala Harris, listen to her explain why she is a very good person, and you’re morally flawed. Good call. That’ll definitely work, just like it did with Hillary Clinton last time. Morons.
Donald Trump has promised to rid America of the birthright citizenship [...]]]>
Donald Trump has promised to rid America of the birthright citizenship scam.
And the cost for America of being the free clinic to the third world does not come cheap in this case, according to an online briefing from the Kaiser Family Foundation:
The Zika Virus: What’s Next in the U.S. and Abroad?, February 17, 2016
Tom Frieden, M.D.: “Of note is that the Center for Birth Defects at CDC estimates that a child with birth defect can have a lifetime incremental cost of care of between 1 and 10 million dollars.”
The former New York Lt. Governor, Betsy McCaughey, is an expert on ObamaCare and was discussing the “loopholes” in the system that will allow illegal aliens to get taxpayer-subsidized care under the program in California when she brought up the Zika situation:
McCAUGHEY: [starting 1:00] “Let me be clear, despite what you’ve heard, there are many many programs in this health law, Obamacare, that are targeted directly to providing health care for illegal immigrants and the Obama administration already spent billions with a “B” — billions of dollars a year on health care for illegal immigrants: you’ve got the community help centers all across the country, federally funded, catering almost exclusively to illegal immigrants.
You’ve got emergency Medicaid, especially prenatal care, labor care, delivery care, almost exclusively for illegal immigrants. We’ve got prenatal care [crosstalk] and the cost is going to go way up, sadly, tragically, when who knows how many pregnant women from South America who are fearful of carrying the Zika virus arrive in the United States to give birth to a child. Their labor and delivery costs will be covered here, and the lifetime cost of caring for this tragically disabled care will be picked up by taxpayers because these children will be US residents.”
Zika mom’s story is changing: initially she said she was “visiting” her US-residing extended family — when she was eight months pregnant. Now it becomes clear that she came for the free stuff. Like all other illegal aliens, she is a liar and a thief.
]]>Mother of Zika baby born in New Jersey says she flew to America to seek treatment after doctors in Honduras ‘underestimated’ her symptoms – and the U.S. citizen baby will cost AT LEAST $1million to treat, Daily Mail, June 5, 2016
The Honduran mother who delivered what is believed to be the first baby to be born with a Zika virus-related condition in the New York tri-state area flew to America to specifically seek treatment.
In an interview with Fox News Latino, the young mother whose name has not been released publicly, explained that her initial symptoms were ‘underestimated’ by medical doctors in her native land.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated in February that it will cost at least $1million to treat a baby with Zika throughout their lifetime.
Mail Online contacted the US Customs and Border Patrol Agency who declined to comment about the woman’s immigration status along with the baby in question due to Privacy Act restrictions.
The 31-year-old woman told Fox News Latino that a rash appeared on her in December and that she was also feverish around the same time – both of which are symptoms of Zika.
She decided to see another doctor in the Central American nation, but then decided to seek treatment in the US and possibly entered the country on a tourist visa 33 days ago.
‘I told my gynecologist that I had an allergic episode,’ she said from her hospital bed at Hackensack University Medical Center.
‘He asked if I had a fever. I said I had had a little fever – but it was very brief, only for about an hour.’
In addition, the doctor in Honduras asked her if she had other symptoms, like redness or pain in her eyes. Those symptoms are often spoken about to health workers from people who have the virus.
‘I said no,’ the woman told Fox News. ‘He said, ‘Don’t worry, everything will be fine. I don’t think you will be affected.’ Then I had an ultrasound, and everything looked fine.’
She was eventually diagnosed with Zika in Honduras before she traveled to New Jersey, where she has relatives. It’s unclear exactly how far along she was in the pregnancy before she traveled to the US.
In addition, most US airlines do not restrict pregnant women from flying, but it is highly suggested that women who are closer to their due date do not board planes.
The woman, who is unsure of how she contracted the virus, said that it may have happened because of a mosquito bite. She gave birth to the baby girl that has intestinal and visual issues along with microcephaly by cesarean section on Tuesday at Hackensack UMC.
The Zika virus has been linked to microcephaly, which is when a baby’s head is smaller than expected due to the brain not developing properly.
Since the baby girl was born in New Jersey, she will automatically become a US citizen. It’s unclear if the mother has insurance or who is paying for the hospital costs.
According to the CDC, the estimated lifetime cost to treat a baby born with this condition that will require long-term care ranges from $1million to $10million.
Some babies with the condition can live normal lives, but most suffer from severe disabilities. . . (continues)