Immoral. Should be illegal. Stealing. Should not be like this. Why is it like this? Where is it going? UNACCEPTABLE.

[ck4829]

Government and media is going to lie to our faces and tell us it's the greatest healthcare in the world? No. Unacceptable.

Conservative Christians are going to tell us being GLBTQ is a sin and yet won't even use the word to refer to this joke of a system that is ripping us all off while turning around and saying we're a Christian Nation despite Jesus healing people for free? No. Unacceptable.

Fox News wants us to panic over shoplifters and has nothing to say about this? No. Unacceptable.

I'm supposed to be afraid of an illegal immigrant taking my job, yet here we have a system taking my money and my life? No. Unacceptable.

And, frankly, any institution or politician who looks at this and does not say "Unacceptable" and not "Unacceptable, but..." needs to be dismantled or seen as illegitimate respectively.

Unacceptable.

[Progressive dog]

1. Something to think about

Despite the immigrant mortality advantage and the increasing share of the population born abroad, relatively little is known about how immigration has impacted trends in US life expectancy. How immigrants contribute to national life expectancy trends is of increasing interest, particularly in the context of an unprecedented stagnation in American mortality. We find that immigration increases US life expectancy by 1.5 years for men and 1.4 years for women. Over half of these contributions occur at the prime working ages of 25–64. The difference between foreign-born and US-born mortality has grown substantially since 1990, with the ratio of US-born to foreign-born mortality rates nearly doubling by 2017. In that year, foreign-born life expectancy reached 81.4 and 85.7 years for men and women, respectively—7.0 and 6.2 years higher than their US-origin counterparts.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8426263/
Do you suppose immigrants are getting better health care than the rest of us?

[intrepidity]

2. Unhilight it first, please, so I can read it. nt

[ck4829]

3. I've read about this, so immigrants might be making our numbers better

Immigrants have to pass regular physical exams, I had a girlfriend from Somalia a long time ago, annual physical and vaccinations for her permanent residency status was required.

Take away immigrants and the divide becomes even more stark, and it will become even more unacceptable.

[Progressive dog]

5. So immigrants are forced to go to the doctor?

Actually, they are required to have a medical exam at the time of admission and some don't register with INS. They still live longer, than those born here, so long that if they were a country, they would tie for the longest national life span in the world.
Doctors can't make people eat a healthy diet, get exercise, or maintain a healthy weight. That's on us.

[ck4829]

6. It might just pertain to the permanent residency status

But she was required to have an annual physical/vaccines to maintain it. Maybe they changed it, this was years ago.

But...

Unacceptable.

[HereForTheParty]

4. Cuz 'Merica don't want no socialized medicine