YouTube Debate: Health care for undocumented immigrants?

On July 23, 2007, CNN and YouTube partnered to sponsor the first Democratic primary debate of the 2008 election cycle. Questions were asked by citizens from around the country by uploading personal videos to the YouTube website.

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[risler34]

"In this country no matter who you are... EVERY American deserves the right to the best possible quality healthcare." AMERICANS deserve it. "Undocumented workers" as he calls them are not Americans.

[patshanz]

it is ab-so-lute-ly ri-di-cu-lous to provide healthcare to undocumented, illegal people in this country! no matter how high our taxes would be, we would not be able to afford it. this is not a question of compassion, it's a matter of capacity.

[visini14]

@patshanz Oh yeah, because illegals T-O-T-A-L-L-Y don't pay A-N-Y taxes. I hope you know that I was being sarcastic. Yes it is possible for the government to provide healthcare to everyone.

[Twilightifyable]

C SPAN "Black Republican Forum" Session 2 (begin at 11:30) Allen West stated part of Amnesty of 1986 was to secure our borders and enforcement our laws, but haven't happened. (We're still talking about new amnesty like DREAM Act.) We can't allow local cities to make sanctuary cities policies, because they will bring our inner city turf wars to epic proportions by bringing in the drug cartel and Columbian gangs. (Mexican Gangs don't recognize US borders established Treaty of Guadalupe)

[Twilightifyable]

In November 2010, the unemployment rate was 9.8% with 15.1 million unemployed. (15.1 million/9.8%) = 154 million are able to work in the workforce. 11,941,812 (or 11.9 million) skilled jobs provided to illegal immigrants. GOOGLE “illegal immigration counters”, the 15.1 million unemployed could take the 11.9 million available jobs. The unemployment rate could be reduced to 2.1% {{15.1-11.9)/154}

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Allen West 2012

[stillcracking]

Vitro Diagnostics, a stem cell research corporation, has a possible cure for diabetes which could cut U.S. health care costs in half. This health bill will force the federal government to sponsor the company. Vitro Diagnostics could easily become one the wealthiest corporations in history by ending diabetes and saving the world trillions in diabetes-related health care costs.

[xSONxOFxCALIFAS]

im a 4th generation mexican american and half white. but ok i guess me being mexican makes me a wetback.

[xSONxOFxCALIFAS]

damn you are a horrible person. you could at least treat him then deport him. but i guess you didnt think of that.

[xSONxOFxCALIFAS]

so if an illegal immigrant was bleeding to death in a emergency room and nobody was waiting, you would deny him service?

[KISSnum1]

i dont want my money to go to immigrants that arent even supposed to be here, if you come here legally i welcome u with open arms because our country was built on immigrants. but just come here legally will ya?

[deoxyribonuclease]

So if an illegal immigrant shows up in an emergency room, bleeding to death, or in nonprogressing/distressed labor, that person should be left to die? Your opinion does not translate into practical reality very well. Fact is, illegal immigrants do receive illegal emergency health care all the time. With no worker's compensation or other employment benefits for the work (hard labor) they do (that most Americans aren't willing to do), the least we can do is patch them up when they're hurt.

[brucethecalfan]

Does anybody realize that of the 50 million uninsured people that the democrats talk about, 10 million are illegal immigrants and 15 million are adults who are eligible for medicaid but don't apply till they're sick or need care? And there is no way ever that illegal immigrants should get driver's licenses or free health care. Bill O'Reilly's right: it's going down the road to socialism.