One of the many reasons that US health care is so expensive is that paying customers, whether they pay through insurance or their company pays through insurance or whether they’re subsidized through government programs, end up footing the bill for people who don’t pay a dime. And I’m not talking about uninsured Americans. I’m referring to illegal aliens — people who shouldn’t be here at all. Jurisdictions like Dallas County, TX have attempted to bill the Mexican government for the millions of health care dollars eaten up every year by illegal aliens. If hospitals aren’t reimbursed for these costs, and most aren’t, it ends up coming out of their budgets or it gets passed on to paying customers.

The 11 illegal aliens so far who were injured in the SoCal wildfire will end up costing Californians a great deal of money.

Democrats like Hillary Clinton (and too many Republicans like President Bush) don’t see or don’t care that their emphasis on keeping the borders open to keep labor costs down not only hurts low-income American workers by depressing wages. It drives up the cost of all sorts of indirectly related things like health care. If they truly want to bring health care costs down, they ought to start by fixing the border and recouping the costs of treating illegal aliens rather than taking over and socializing a huge chunk of the US economy.