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Originally Posted by SAMIAM
my wife and I pay a whopping $1,600 per month for Anthem Blue Cross.
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There are lots of reasons for that. One is the enormous costs of illegal aliens. See
here, and
here about the cost and health care destruction going on in California.
Here's an article on The federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) which is a big cause of this. The American Hospital Association put the illegal alien health care tab at $21 billion several years ago. But in spite of this, there are a lot of people
out there who say leave them alone, and actively encourage even more free health care to illegal non-citizens.
That's not the whole story of course -- but it is a significant factor in what we, the U.S. citizens, have to pay. We aren't just paying for our health care -- we're paying for a lot of other people, too.