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"Morton Davis" <antikerry@go.com> wrote in message 
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> "The Real Bev" <bashley@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
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>> pohaku.kane@gmail.com wrote:
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>> > The fact is foreign workers spend a good deal of that money here. They
>> > also pay massive amounts in taxes, and what everyone seems to forget is
>> > that they pay into a social security retirement system they will NOT
>> > ever be able to use if they are undocumented.
>>
>> A relatively minor hospitalization can cost on the order of $100K.  How
> much
>> do you think low-wage undocumented immigrants can pay into the SS system?
> 6%
>> of a pittance is still a pittance.
>>
>>
> How do you get $500,000 in free medical care - including plastic surgery?
> Blow yourself up in a meth lab. A great many $100K medical expenses get
> written off as bad debt as a tax writeoff.


Time for another economics lesson:  All of the $100K is paid by those
of us that earn money that we then pay to the medical establishment.

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