Anyway, in googling around, I did find another article about that little Mexican town. Ironically, it turns out Arizonans go there to shop and get their prescriptions filled.
http://www.riosonora.com/naco.html

I also found a few articles about Americans going to Mexico to take advantage of the health care there.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-08-31-mexico-health-care_N.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32404952/ns/health-health_care/

I don’t think anyone disputes that illegal immigrants place a burden on our health care system. But that burden exist now. The solution to that problem lies elsewhere than reform of our insurance industry.

I work in health care with private insurances, let Georgia privatize and see how much money the middle class turnips have left. See when your child has cancer and and they reach their lifetime benefits or are denied a life saving treatment or medication. I see it happening now with private insurance every day.

The truth is even a public option in reality is a farce because it’s backed by corrupt politicians (all politicians are corrupt). Our system in it’s entirety is crippled by all the greedy, stupid politicians that are in office now making decisions. They are all puppets on a corporate string. It’s not a country governed by the people anymore, no matter what it seems like or what promises are made during election time.

The other things is where is everyone’s morality? Who are you to decide whether or not someone should be denied life saving treatment? You want to care about being bled dry? Then care when billions are spent in defense bills on unnecessary crap because your elected officials care more about companies then you. Care when they bail out banks, care when they pork bills, care about quarterly profits up 200% while unemployment is at 10%- all the politicians do this stuff- no party republican or democrat is free from the taint of corporate greed. Your being fooled by dog and pony show when there is a larger issue at play here.

Good luck to all our children and grandchildren if people don’t start correcting the disease where it stems.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/health/14HOSP.html

“For years, these patients have strained hospitals and health clinics near the border, driving some out of business and forcing many to reduce their services. The American Hospital Association estimated that in 2000, the 24 southernmost counties from Texas to California accrued $832 million in unpaid medical care, a quarter of which was directly attributable to illegal immigrants.”

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,995145-1,00.html

“Unlike big governments, small community hospitals cannot run deficits forever. The Copper Queen’s [hospital in Arizona] shortfall from treating illegal aliens grows each year. This year it will be about $450,000, bringing the total for the past few years to $1.4 million. With each money-losing year, a tiny piece of the 14-bed hospital dies. When that happens, the entire community suffers. Dickson’s most agonizing decision came when he was forced to shutter the long-term-care unit. ‘It was the only place the elderly could go,’ he says. ‘If someone had dementia, we had a room for them.’ But no more. Now if people who spent their life in Bisbee need elder care, they must leave the area. ‘The more free care we give,’ Dickson says, ‘the more we have to ration what’s left.’”

“Dickson emphasizes that not all the free care is going to illegal aliens passing through on their way to other states. About half goes to Mexicans who use the Copper Queen as their personal emergency-care facility. In effect, the hospital, which performs general surgery, has become the trauma center for that stretch of northern Mexico. If an ambulance pulls up to the border-crossing point near Bisbee and announces ‘compassionate entry,’ the border patrol waves it through, and the Copper Queen is compelled to treat the patient. It is one more program that Congress mandates but does not pay for. ‘If you make me treat someone,’ says Dickson, ‘then you need to pay me. You can’t have unfunded mandates in a small hospital.’ Although the Medicare drug act that passed last year provides for modest payments to hospitals that treat illegal aliens, Dickson says there is a catch that the U.S. government has yet to figure out. ‘How do I document an undocumented alien? How am I going to prove I rendered that care? They have no Social Security number, no driver’s license.’”

Or Google around and you’ll find more info about border-state hospitals and their crises caused by illegal migration. Yes, ERs and entire hospitals have closed because of this situation.

Benevolus, you need to spend some time down at the welfare office or the public clinics. The scales will fall.

“4. Any enactment by Congress either of partial or of comprehensive regulations of the insurance business would come to us with the most forceful presumption of constitutional validity. The fiction that insurance is not commerce could not be sustained against such a presumption, for resort to the facts would support the presumption in favor of the congressional action. The fiction therefore must yield to congressional action, and continues only at the sufferance of Congress.”

I will also mention that, under federal law, illegal aliens are eligible for WIC (as it used to be called) and Medicaid. For the adults, Medicaid kicks in for emergency care — that is, anything they want to call an emergency that brings them to show up in an ER; doesn’t have to be an actual emergency. This has covered millions of childbirths to illegal aliens. For children who are illegal aliens or the American-born children of illegal aliens, there are assorted federal and state welfare health-care programs, but really all are just Medicaid.

Sounds like Judson Hill is keen to squeeze more blood out of the middle-class turnip.

By the way, if Obama doesn’t get what he wants in the way of public option, etc., he and Congress will just further expand Medicaid, as he has done already. Same difference.