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Operation Spick And Span: Cleaning Up Our Health Care System

Remember when you were a kid and you used to look forward to getting a lolly pop after seeing the family doctor? It seemed that the doctor was always in control and would ensure the best treatment and care available for his patients. The current health care system today has been completely uprooted from its original standards and values and has become more of an assembly line occupation. Current lack of finances due to unpaid medical bills placed on American hospitals by illegal aliens is causing this change and pushing our hospitals to the brink of collapse. As a result, this forces doctors and staff to no longer have the time to give the one-on-one quality patient care. The health care system is now suffering from the onslaught of illegal aliens with no money but with tremendous medical needs. This, in turn, affects us all, by forcing tax paying citizens to endure outrageous waiting times, higher medical costs, and receive mediocre care in return.
Illegal aliens are taking precedence over U.S. citizens in the hospital due to the sheer number of them needing care by our physicians. No American hospital is allowed to turn a person in need away, which means our health care system is forced to treat illegal aliens the same as a legal resident of the United States. This leads to a concern for any American who consider the United States his or her home. The concern that the majority of undocumented aliens are not paying for the expenses that they incur during their stay at the hospital; this has resulted in a downward spiral of American hospitals and care given by them.
The United States is a country that has been founded through immigration. Documented immigration has led America to become one of the most powerful countries in many aspects by contributing to the economy and ultimately leading to superior health care services to American citizens. However with immigration there has always been undocumented immigration leading to opposite results. These results...