Average Family Healthcare Premiums Jump More Than 25 Percent Since 2004

"My health care cost hasn't gone up because I take care of myself and continue to have a job"

Good for you, but not all of our loved ones have a job in this economy. P.S.: Tell me how staying healthy goes when you get into a car wreck or are mauled by a wild animal, for examples.

"The cost increase has a lot to do with the people that use the emergency room as their primary care and have no insurance."

A lot of people that use emergency rooms do so also because they cannot afford insurance or the preventive doctor check ups. This offers that insurance you keep citing.

"Shutting down the borders and kick every law breaking alien out of the country would reduce the overall health care cost dramatically."

How do you hope to be able to achieve this? It would be extremely invasive to get every illegal immigrant, as you can imagine. Searching homes, for example. We already ship them out as it is. Imagine the resources (read: tax dollars) you would need to fund the forces to track them all down. You can't even offer this as a plausible solution in a time of which states are rapidly letting go of police and other basic needs.

(I realise the comment is old, but really? There is so many holes in this that I cannot let others looking up information to cite in school projects just walk away without some creative thinking here.)

ZK of MI 6:25PM November 18, 2009