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Let me know. :) It's a "work-in-progress" in my head, after all.
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by cartwrightdale on Sun Dec 09, 2007 at 01:54:38 PM PDT
by seeker on Sun Dec 09, 2007 at 02:46:10 PM PDT
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Covering illegal immigrants in the full system would have to be paid by someone. If you have 20 million people who need a very low estimate average of, say, $4,000 in medical care per year, that's $80 billion dollars per year additional, or around $1,000 additional per taxpayer per year.
Personally, my medical costs average around $16,000 per year, including all doctors visits, prescription meds, dental visits, and eyeglasses. And that's not particularly high -- it's not like I need surgeries or hospital stays or anything like that. :)
by cartwrightdale on Sun Dec 09, 2007 at 03:33:51 PM PDT
covers non-citizens. Once while I was on vacation I was in an accident and ended up in the hospital in the UK for 2 weeks and it didn't cost me a dime, the entire cost was covered by the United Kingdom's national health care system.
I believe the same applies for France's health care system also because my sister was once hospitalized in France because of a burst appendix while vacationing at no cost to her.
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by MichiganGirl on Sun Dec 09, 2007 at 03:47:29 PM PDT
...as a tourist, I received free medical care.
by nightowl724 on Mon Dec 10, 2007 at 12:10:55 AM PDT
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