The fall of the Republican Party

The anti-immigration nut cases are trying to make a case that immigration to the USA will increase if we have health care for all in the USA. They actually have a good point. An average non-billionaire Canadian or European citizen would be nuts to trade living in his own country to live in a country where just getting sick means you loose everything that you own and worked for. Foreign residents who are being educated and trained in the USA might have a reason to take up permanent residence in the USA if our health care rises to an adequate level.

Everyone of us knows someone who picked up an infection in a hospital. Right now US hospitals are a place to go to die. You could go into a hospital for routine surgery and come out in a hearse because you died from an infection picked up in the hospital. The hospitals are forced to cut costs. Lack of adequate staff and properly trained staff means that sometimes infections ride on equipment and sometimes on gloves. Your insurance company could care less what happens to you. Your insurance companies customers are not you or your employer. Their customers are their stockholders

The anti-medical care for all Americans fight is being led by convicted felon Rick Scott. Scott is a former hospital company chief executive forced to resign as C.E.O. after his company defrauded the government through overbilling. But that is just the TV advertising of the medical insurance industry. The real battlefield of the insurance company’s war against US citizens is in the halls of Congress.

I understand that some Democrats are in the pockets of medical insurance and drug company lobbyists. But let’s get something straight. If the Republican's prostitutes on Capitol Hill and their insurance and drug company johns prevent US citizens from getting adequate medical care the Republican Party is finished. It may not be immediate. It may take a few election cycles but the Republican Party will be history.