THE STAGGERING COST OF THE WELFARE STATE MEXICO AND THE LA RAZA SUPREMACY DEMOCRAT PARTY HAVE BUILT BORDER to OPEN BORDER’
According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s 2017 report, illegal immigrants, and their children, cost American taxpayers a net $116 billion annually -- roughly $7,000 per alien annually. While high, this number is not an outlier: a recent study by the Heritage Foundation found that low-skilled immigrants (including those here illegally) cost Americans trillions over the course of their lifetimes, and a study from the National Economics Editorial found that illegal immigration costs America over $140 billion annually. As it stands, illegal immigrants are a massive burden on American taxpayers.
THE WAR ON AMERICA’S MIDDLE-CLASS waged by D.C., U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the La Raza Fascist Party and Mexico!
The Washington-imposed economic policy of mass-immigration floods the market with foreign labor and spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with OPIOID ADDICTIONS opioid addictions. NEIL MUNRO
Study shows 144,000 US
inmates denied care for hepatitis C
By E.P. Milligan
7 July 2018
A recent survey and round of interviews at state prisons across
the United States revealed that staff are refusing treatment to at least
144,000 inmates suffering from hepatitis C. If left untreated, the condition
can potentially mean a slow and agonizing death sentence. The recent revelation
once again sheds light on the horrific conditions facing inmates in prisons
across America, a country which is time and time again hailed as the richest in
the world.
Prison officials cited high drug prices as their reason for
failing to treat inmates. The anti-viral medication required to treat the
condition frequently can cost over $90,000 for a 24-week regimen, depending on
the strain of the virus and the patient’s medical history. The new round of
drugs, introduced within the last decade, have over a 95 percent success rate
in eradicating the virus, involving very limited side effects.
The previous form of treatment involved a year-long regimen of
shots and ribavirin pills that produced chemo-like symptoms in patients, with
only a 50 percent cure rate. The older, less effective form of treatment costs
around $70,000.
Hepatitis C (HCV) is one of three types of blood-borne virus that
infects the liver, causing inflammation. Whereas hepatitis A usually causes
only a short-term infection, B and C can lead to long-term and even lifelong
inflammation. Long-term infection can lead to serious medical complications
including liver damage, cirrhosis (scarring of the liver), liver cancer, and
even death. According to the Centers for Disease Control, roughly 75 to 85
percent of people who become infected with HCV will develop a chronic
infection. While vaccines exist for types A and B, there is no vaccine for HCV.
Around 97 percent of inmates living with HCV are denied access to
the cure, according to a survey conducted through the Toni Stabile Center for
Investigative Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of
Journalism.
The high price of the new treatments has led both state and
federal prisons to ration the drug, limiting it to patients with a high risk of
developing liver problems or with low blood platelet levels. It can take two to
three decades before the disease becomes life-threatening, while patients can
transmit the disease during this entire period, through such means as the
sharing of toothbrushes, razor blades and needles, or less commonly through
sexual contact.
What is more, many prisons ignore their own already subpar
guidelines for standards of care. Florida Department of Corrections records
show that 181 or more inmates who met the criteria for treatment throughout the
state of Florida did not get the cure. Department policy states that prisoners
are eligible for HCV therapy when the disease reaches Stage 2, at which point
the liver shows mild to moderate thickening or scarring of tissue.
Once an individual is incarcerated, he or she is typically allowed
care through the prison itself. States restrict or prohibit any type of private
or outside care.
The prisons’ refusal of treatment
stands in violation of the 1976 US Supreme Court ruling in Estelle v.
Gamble, which described such practice as a form of “cruel and
unusual punishment.” The ruling stated that “deliberate indifference to serious
medical needs of prisoners constitutes the ‘unnecessary and wanton infliction
of pain’…proscribed by the Eighth Amendment.”
Whereas about 1 to 2 percent of the
total US population has HCV, within the prisoner population the prevalence rate
is over 17 percent, according to a 2014 article in the journal Public Health
Reports. Because of the spike in the infection rate for HCV in the
most recent years due to the spiraling opioid epidemic, it is likely these
rates are already far higher. The newest study estimates that as many as 75,000
HCV-infected people are released from prison per year, often with limited access
to testing, let alone treatment.
New hepatitis treatments include Merck’s Zepatier, priced at
$54,000 for a 12-week course of treatment, and AbbVie’s Viekira Pak, priced at
$83,000.
However, it is Gilead Science’s drugs, Sovaldi and Harvoni, that
dominate the market, bringing in $19 billion in annual revenue for the company.
Sovaldi is priced at $84,000 for a 12-week course of treatment, or $1,000 per
pill, while Harvoni is priced at $94,500.
Gilead’s pricing strategy was the
subject of a US Senate report released in December of 2015. The
18-month Senate investigation looked at 20,000 pages of internal company
documents, finding that Gilead priced the new hepatitis C treatments as high as
they thought the market would bear, with no consideration for how this would
limit patient access.
These new drugs in the United States,
Canada and Europe remain far more expensive than in the rest of the world,
which does not share the same drug patent laws. Sovaldi, for example, costs $4
per pill in India—a total cost of $336 for a 12-week regimen. The health
ministry of India announced in January of this year that it plans to provide
free treatment at all government health set-ups, according to an article in the Indian
Express.
The rationing of health care among the prison population mirrors
the rationing of health care for workers and their families in the United
States and internationally. It reflects the irrationality of a system in which
the health needs of the population are subordinated to the profit interests of
large pharmaceutical companies, insurance firms, and hospital and drug store
chains.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
What will America stand for in 2050?
The US should think long and hard about the high number of
Latino immigrants.
By Lawrence Harrison
It's not just a
short-run issue of immigrants competing with citizens for jobs as unemployment
approaches 10 percent or the number of uninsured straining the quality of
healthcare. Heavy immigration from Latin America threatens our cohesiveness as
a nation.
MEXICO WILL DOUBLE U.S.
POPULATION
By Tom Barrett
At the current rate of invasion (mostly through Mexico, but also
through Canada) the United States will be completely over run with illegal
aliens by the year 2025. I’m not talking about legal immigrants who follow US
law to become citizens. In less than 20 years, if we do not stop the invasion,
ILLEGAL aliens and their offspring will be the dominant population in the
United States.
THE U.S. TAX and WALL STREET
FUNDED MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA “The Race” NOW CALLING ITSELF UNIDOSus.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/05/mexican-fascist-party-of-la-raza-race_20.html
Previous
generations of immigrants did not believe they were racially superior to
Americans. That is the view of La Raza Cosmica, by Jose Vasconcelos,
Mexico’s former education minister and a presidential candidate. According to
this book, republished in 1979 by the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal
State LA, students of Scandinavian, Dutch and English background are dullards,
blacks are ugly and inferior, and those “Mongols” with the slanted eyes lack
enterprise. The superior new “cosmic” race of Spaniards and Indians is
replacing them, and all Yankee “Anglos.” LLOYD
BILLINGSLEY/ FRONTPAGE mag
MEXICO EXPANDS THE LA RAZA
SUPREMACY WELFARE STATE TO ALL 50 FORMERLY U.S. STATES.
CASE OF CHAIN MIGRATION THAT
DESTROYED HAZELTON, PENNSYLVANIA.
$1.3 billion:
The annual cost of illegal immigration to Pennsylvania’s taxpayers;
· $5,003: The annual cost per illegal alien to the state of Pennsylvania;
· $273: The annual cost of illegal immigration to each U.S. citizen
household in Pennsylvania;
· 203,000: The estimated number of illegal aliens living in Pennsylvania.
· 30 percent: The percent of the federal prison population comprised of
immigrants – most of whom are here illegally.
VIDEO:
THIS AMERICAN LIFE
NPR PROGRAM ON
AMERICA UNDER LA RAZA OCCUPATION – GRIM!
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