Before you cut my head off over the headline, look at the facts. Joe Wilson claims illegal imigrants will be covered with health care. Is he wrong? Do we toss sick illegals out into the streets to die?
If an illegal immigrant gets sick and goes to the ER, are they not covered? Are they not given treatment? It is the compassionate and humane thing to do is it not? If someone in this country gets sick and shows up dying at the ER, they are given medical treatment, no matter who they are. We do not look at someone, say "You're no American, go drop dead" and throw them out with the garbage. Which brings me to my point. Joe Wilson is technically correct. We do cover illegal immigrants, we do give them health care, we do pay for it.
Yes Joe Wilson was an ass tonight, but in our tripping over ourselves in our outrage, we're missing the point. The response to Joe Wilson is to admit he's correct and make him choke on it.
Hell yes we cover illegal immigrants, because we're not heartless bastards who will watch someone die without lifting a finger. And make the rich businessmen choke on it as well. They're the ones who cheered on the importation of cheap labor that slashed the wages of working Americans and trashed our economy. And now that they have no more use for the surplus labor, they don't want to pay for it.
Well too damn bad. You the rich brought them here, you gave them jobs at the expense of unemployed Americans, so now you get to pay the health care costs for your employees.
So the correct response isn't to gin up a bunch of flash in the pan outrage. The correct response is to tell the rich that yes, they do have to pay the health care costs for all the cheap labor they imported, and if they don't like it, they can suck on it.
Am I wrong?