AMERICA'S OPEN BORDERS
HERITAGE FOUNDATION:
AMNESTY WILL ADD
ANOTHER 100 MILLION IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
Where does the jobs
(for legals), housing crisis, homelessness and Mexican drug cartels’ expansion?
AMERICA’S SUICIDE:
PATHOLOGICAL
VIOLENCE, OPIOID ADDICTION, STAGGERING POVERTY, SOARING JOBLESSNESS FOR LEGALS
AND POVERTY FOR ALL….. While the rich only get SUPER RICH!
The legacy of
Obamacare: A five percent increase in heart patient deaths
15 November 2017
When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that
death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in
advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when
society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably
meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by
violence as that by the sword or bullet … murder it remains. (Friedrich
Engels, The Condition of
the Working Class in England, 1845)
* * *
A US government program supposedly devised both to improve medical
care and cut costs has, predictably, succeeded in the latter while undermining
the former. Research published Sunday in JAMA Cardiology (Journal of the American Medical
Association) shows that an initiative introduced five years ago
under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to induce hospitals to reduce Medicare
readmissions for heart patients has resulted in an increase in mortality rates
among those studied.
Under the ACA’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP),
hospitals were penalized financially when heart failure patients were
readmitted within a month. While the program has succeeded in reducing the
number of 30-day readmissions, the number of patients who died within a year
rose by 5 percentage points. According to one of the study’s senior authors,
these findings could account for an additional 5,000 to 10,000 deaths annually across the
US due directly to the program.
For the American ruling elite, HRRP and other schemes devised by bureaucrats
at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are part of an agenda
that is as deliberate as it is ruthless: Men and women in the US are living too
long into old age and measures must be taken to cut costs associated with their
medical care and shorten their life expectancy. This is the deadly price that
must be paid to prop up a society that is one of the most socially unequal both
in terms of income and the delivery of health care.
The statistics do not lie. Study researchers analyzed 115,245
patients at 416 hospitals in the American Heart Association’s Get With the
Guidelines-Heart Failure registry from January 2006 to December 2014. They
examined readmission and death rates before and after the program began in
2012.
* Readmission rates within one month fell from 20 percent before
HRRP penalties to 18.4 percent after HRRP (down 1.6 percent). Mortality rates,
however, rose by almost the same rate, from 7.2 percent before HRRP to 8.6
percent after (up 1.4 percent).
* Statistics for readmission and mortality within one year were
even more damning. Readmission within one year fell by only about 1 percent,
from 57.2 percent before HRRP to 56.3 percent after. But the mortality rate
within one year rose from 31.3 percent before HRRP to 36.3 percent after—a shocking 5 percent increase. These
figures show that there is a direct correlation between implementation of the
Obamacare policy and preventable deaths.
HRRP penalizes hospitals up to 3 percent of every Medicare dollar
for “excessive” repeat hospital stays. That is 15 times more than the 0.2
percent penalty levied against hospitals with high mortality rates. In other
words, while hospitals with higher rates of mortality face a minimal fine,
hospitals are being substantially penalized for failure to comply with a
program that is resulting in increased deaths.
Compounding the misery, financial penalties from HRRP have been
shown to fall disproportionately on academic medical centers and “safety-net”
hospitals where “higher readmission rates are associated with the higher
case-mix complexity and lower socioeconomic status,” according to the study,
i.e., those treating poorer and sicker patients. In such settings, hospitals
are incentivized to “game” the system by delaying admissions, increasing observation
stays or shifting inpatient-type care to emergency departments, to the
detriment of patient welfare.
The US mortality rate rose in 2015 in the first year-over-year
increase since 2005, with life expectancy falling between 2014 and 2015 from
85.8 years to 85.6 years for men, and from 87.8 years to 87.6 years for women.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this decline was
due to an increase in eight of the 10 leading causes of death in the US,
including heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and suicide.
With heart disease rising, there is no other way to interpret the
penalties imposed by the ACA for early readmission of heart patients than a
deliberate effort to see more men and women die. US corporations are already reaping
a grim dividend from this downward trend, with at least 12 major corporations
reporting this summer that they have reduced their estimates for how much they
could owe in pension and other retirement obligations by a combined $9.7
billion due to shorter life spans.
It is fitting that the health care overhaul known as Obamacare was
the instigator of HRRP, an irrefutable demonstration that the ACA was the first
major volley in the bipartisan drive to restrict access to affordable health
care and sharply reduce the length of workers’ lives.
As the World
Socialist Web Site explained as early at 2009, the Obama
administration’s health care “reform” established a framework for the insurers,
the corporations and the government to drastically reduce the health benefits
available to low- and middle-income individuals and families. The aim is to
limit the amount that the government must pay out for health care and Social
Security payments, as well as what corporations must pay in pensions and other
retirement benefits.
Health care in the Obamacare era has nothing in common with
quality, near-universal health care, as Obama initially pledged. It is based
entirely on the for-profit health care system in America, including the
insurance companies, giant hospitals, health care chains and pharmaceutical
companies. Any repeal of the ACA—and its replacement with “Trumpcare” or any
other legislation—will maintain the class-based delivery of health care and
undoubtedly worsen it for the majority of Americans.
The empirical proof provided by research published in JAMA Cardiology that an
ACA program has predictably caused increased deaths should serve as a stark
warning to the working class. This Obamacare program is of a piece with the
bipartisan attack on jobs and living standards, the attack on immigrants and
democratic rights, and the drive to war.
This assault will inevitably provoke enormous social opposition
among workers and young people. This opposition must be channeled into the
fight for a progressive overhaul of the health care system that takes as its
starting point an end to privately owned health care corporations and
medicine-for-profit and the establishment of socialized medicine,
democratically administered by a workers’ government, providing free, high-quality
health care for all.
Kate Randall
JOHN BINDER
CALIFORNIA MOVES CLOSER TO FINAL ANNEXATION BY
MEXICO
DE FACTO CITIZENSHIP PER LA RAZA:
NO TEST, NO BACKGROUND CHECKS
ON CRIMINALITY, NO BACK TAXES, NO
FINES.... JUST JUMP STRAIGHT TO VOTING BOOTHS!
AND VOTE OFTEN!!!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/07/john-binder-californias-surrender-to.html
In 2013, California lawmakers passed legislation
that allowed illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses if they can prove to
the Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) their identity and state residency. The
plan was one of the largest victories to date by the open borders lobby.… JOHN BINDER –
BREITBART.com
Adios, California
A fifth-generation Californian laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator, October 19, 2017
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving the state and the takers are coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens, now estimated to number over 2.6 million. The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs. Liberals claim they more than make that up with taxes paid, but that’s simply not true. It’s not even close. FAIR estimates illegal aliens in California contribute only $1.21 billion in tax revenue, which means they cost California $20.6 billion, or at least $1,800 per household.
Nonetheless, open border advocates, such as Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the Center for Immigration Studies has documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegal aliens were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, California, with its 2.6 million illegal aliens, would be booming.
Furthermore, the complexion of illegal aliens has changed with far more on welfare and committing crimes than those who entered the country in the 1980s. Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. Granted, those statistics are old, but if you talk to any California law enforcement officer, they will tell you it’s much worse today. The problem is that the Brown administration will not release any statewide data on illegal alien crimes. That would be insensitive. And now that California has declared itself a “sanctuary state,” there is little doubt this sends a message south of the border that will further escalate illegal immigration into the state.
Indeed, California goes out of its way to attract illegal aliens. The state has even created government programs that cater exclusively to illegal aliens. For example, the State Department of Motor Vehicles has offices that only process driver licenses for illegal aliens. With over a million illegal aliens now driving in California, the state felt compelled to help them avoid the long lines the rest of us must endure at the DMV. And just recently, the state-funded University of California system announced it will spend $27 million on financial aid for illegal aliens. They’ve even taken out radio spots on stations all along the border, just to make sure other potential illegal border crossers hear about this program. I can’t afford college education for all my four sons, but my taxes will pay for illegals to get a college education.
A fifth-generation Californian laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator, October 19, 2017
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving the state and the takers are coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens, now estimated to number over 2.6 million. The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs. Liberals claim they more than make that up with taxes paid, but that’s simply not true. It’s not even close. FAIR estimates illegal aliens in California contribute only $1.21 billion in tax revenue, which means they cost California $20.6 billion, or at least $1,800 per household.
Nonetheless, open border advocates, such as Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the Center for Immigration Studies has documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegal aliens were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, California, with its 2.6 million illegal aliens, would be booming.
Furthermore, the complexion of illegal aliens has changed with far more on welfare and committing crimes than those who entered the country in the 1980s. Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. Granted, those statistics are old, but if you talk to any California law enforcement officer, they will tell you it’s much worse today. The problem is that the Brown administration will not release any statewide data on illegal alien crimes. That would be insensitive. And now that California has declared itself a “sanctuary state,” there is little doubt this sends a message south of the border that will further escalate illegal immigration into the state.
Indeed, California goes out of its way to attract illegal aliens. The state has even created government programs that cater exclusively to illegal aliens. For example, the State Department of Motor Vehicles has offices that only process driver licenses for illegal aliens. With over a million illegal aliens now driving in California, the state felt compelled to help them avoid the long lines the rest of us must endure at the DMV. And just recently, the state-funded University of California system announced it will spend $27 million on financial aid for illegal aliens. They’ve even taken out radio spots on stations all along the border, just to make sure other potential illegal border crossers hear about this program. I can’t afford college education for all my four sons, but my taxes will pay for illegals to get a college education.
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