Comments by "D. San" (@DSan-kl2yc) on "The law that broke US immigration" video.

@Angela-ul9fm yea. Any time you hear someone be tough on crime, it basically means they'll ignore the root causes. Won't make the community better. They'll just be harsher on it.
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I think the U.S can decide to like turn people away, and allow them in ect. The weird part is that they made the path to citizenship more difficult. Like that actually makes no sense. It's paradoxical. They took away 3 solutions to the problem. Which leads me to believe that the solution that keeps the immigrants here is what they didn't like in the first place.
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@MrMuttly55 It doesn't affect the cohesion of this country at all. But the U.S has definitely played a role in destabilizing a good portion of the region
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@joshbaker6368 The reason why the U.S spends so much is because the government is weak in the first place. They handicapped medicare to not be able to use it's strength to negotiate. The hospitals and pharmaceutical companies all engage in price gouging, so does the insurance company. Strengthening the government in this area is literally said to reduce costs by the most conservative estimates.
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@robgronotte1 That's not free healthcare. You still have to pay it in an emergency room. All that means is that they'll treat you before or even if you don't show a capacity to pay. They'll saddle you with debt though. It's hard to qualify for medicaid. Poor isn't accurate. Extremely poor or with a lot of kids. And free clinics are far and few. I tried going to one. I wasn't seen at all. You talk to a nurse and if she doesn't think it's worth it(no check up or anything) that's it. Some are better than that. But that's getting up early, travelling far. And of course, illegal immigrants can't get it. Don't pretend any of this is the same as seeing a doctor when you have a problem or for check ups. Or universal healthcare.
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@Kevin Lee That's called making people second class citizens, and that's incredible immoral. Because you make an underclass.
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@cashewnuttel9054 That's not how countries become rich. Usually a person at that level can't impact it at all. And that says nothing about the current structure or just a lack of resources that limits a country. The current system is designed in such a way that it's very difficult to climb up. It's like the myth of mobility in the U.S. If it was like that, all the countries would just do it. So you have these two immense structural obstacles. The way the country currently is where a basic worker can't do much, like in the U.S. And a global system of countries that don't always let people rise. And then you have the limitations of resources to make it happen. Or money ect.
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@joshbaker6368 I mostly agree with you except one thing. Whatever other reforms happen, they have to be with whatever transitions into universal healthcare. That's an immediate now situation. And there are bills(or proposed ideas) that have 6-8 year transitions. But it all has to be part of that bill. What you have to take into account is that there are force* actively working against it from a business perspective. This is the kind of situation where we have to do it right away and iron things out later. Unless lobbying and money in politics or the very way we vote with first past the post. Which are all less likely than universal healthcare. I'm for any transition. And I'm for any improvement. But we sort of have to overshoot to get anything. We've had over 12 years where even the public option hasn't happened. Even further when you go back to Clinton, JFK, Or Harry Truman. Part of the reason for those wages being so high is because of the high cost of education. Often the same people that advocate for universal healthcare are for universal higher learning too. Or at least much more subsidized.
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@Ashton Lonee and I literally work with people on medicaid that see therapists. But that doesn't mean it's easy to get into. Especially for people that are single. Almost anyone who is with any kind of job is disqualified. Sometimes the opposite is true. If you don't have a job, somehow you don't qualify. Not all states cover low income basically(12 states don't). anyone that makes over 17,609 doesn't qualify. And that was due to the ACA. So for me that was 6 years as an adult without the possibility as well. I'm looking at my states' website for eligibility and it seems, based on their wording, that you have to be both low income and be responsible for a child. But it's listed as a state with expanded medicaid so it's not clear on this. And I didn't say medicaid isn't free, but emergency rooms.
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@Ashton Lonee Don't know how they did it. I'm talking from the experience I had with it. In both circumstances I was in. They might have a disability. Well you can always ask them how they got it or qualified.
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