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markinkansas No that's misleading for sure. Medical bureaucracy and patents make resources scarce for people. Drug companies often extend patents through tiny tweaks to medications (called “evergreening”) just to keep generic, cheaper versions off the market.
This lets them charge American patients the highest drug prices in the world, even for medicine that costs a few dollars elsewhere.
Example: Insulin can cost $300+ per vial in the U.S. but is $10 or less in other countries.
The U.S. spends more on healthcare administration than any other country with hundreds of billions a year on billing, coding, prior authorizations, and insurance paperwork.
Some estimates say 30% of healthcare spending goes to administrative costs and not actual care.
That means when Americans struggle to afford care, it’s often because of layers of inefficiency, not because an immigrant saw a doctor.
The pharmaceutical and insurance industries spend millions lobbying Congress to keep prices high, prevent negotiation (like Medicare bargaining), and block reform.
They shape policy so that profit comes first, not patients, citizens or otherwise.
If Maga is worried about not having enough medicine or care, the cause isn’t immigrants, it’s corporate control and systemic waste. We already have the resources. They're just stuck behind red tape, greed, and a profit-first system.
Healthcare is not a zero-sum system, the U.S. healthcare system is complex, but it’s not like a pie where one slice means less for someone else.
Most medicine and care are not limited resources—if more people need vaccines, more get made. If more doctors are needed, systems can expand (with funding and planning).
Immigrants often pay into the system, many immigrants, including undocumented ones, pay taxes (like sales, property, and even payroll taxes through fake SSNs) without qualifying for most public benefits.
This means they often subsidize services they don’t even use.
Furthermore, emergency care is guaranteed
by U.S. law (EMTALA), hospitals must treat anyone in an emergency, citizen or not.
So withholding regular care doesn’t actually save money. It increases emergency room visits, which are more expensive for taxpayers and hospitals.
If you don’t treat sick people (including immigrants), diseases can spread, to citizens too.
Giving immigrants vaccines, antibiotics, or prenatal care doesn’t just help them, it protects the whole community.
Many “American citizens” are in immigrant families so denying care to one person in a mixed-status family hurts U.S. citizen children, spouses, and communities.
