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Many United States citizens are living life without a safety net because they cannot afford the cost of health insurance. Injuries go untreated while people live in pain. Diseases progress when they could've been easily resolved if only they'd been detected sooner. Lives are lost while hospitals turn away families without health insurance. Still the question is posed "Should government pay for all medical care?" I say the question is this: "Why should a government not pay for the health care of it's citizens?"

For anyone opposed to the idea of government-funded health care, the most obvious answer is "money." Where would it come from? For starters we could examine the effects of illegal immigration on the health care system. Because our government is failing it's responsibility to contain illegal immigration, hospitals absorb the cost of treatment for illegal immigrants, driving up the cost of health insurance. When illegal alien mothers give birth, at the cost of our hospitals, and their children immediately become U.S. citizens and are eligible for Medicaid services. Instead of paying for illegal immigrants and their children, those taxpayers'
dollars should be spent benefiting the taxpayers. When immigrants are in our country illegally, isn't that reason enough to send them back before taxpayers end up footing the bill for their anchor babies?

Another popular argument is the concern of the government having too much involvement. But government-funded health care gives rise to the opportunity for a supervised health care system, monitoring spending and management. Hospitals and health care facilities operating more efficiently means more money to put back into the health care system.

Unfortunately, it isn't very likely that the government will be getting around to solving our medical care crisis any time soon. Until the government can get a handle on illegal immigration, many will continue to do without. Sadly, inactivity could be more expensive than government-funded health care in the long run.

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