Those other countries don't have the tremendous welfare costs we have. We already spend a $ trillion a year on "welfare". This would add another $ trillion. Where does it stop? EVERYONE gets the equivalent of $50,000 a year? Even if they do nothing? What does that do to the nations debt problem? We can't pay the bills as it is now and we're $20 trillion in the hole.

$20 trillion in debt and going deeper a $ trillion a year? We can't afford it. We need LESS poor to take care of from cradle to grave...not more.

I WORKED for mine...I earned it...what did those 50 million poor do? They were born to leeches and they've done nothing but leech ever since. The inner cities have millions of the nameless minority poor who are born and die in the inner city slums...like animals in zoos...provided for by the keepers...just "there" providing no value ever throughout their hopefully short lives.

We just can't afford to carry the weight of the numbers of poor that we do now with the amount of benefits we provide now. OUR POOR live more like most of those countries middle class. It's disingenuous to ONLY pick out healthcare when "our poor" get SO MUCH MORE than anyone else's poor get. Our poor also get housing, food, cell phone, education, FREE EMERGENCY healthcare, childcare, and more... HALF our population receives a benefit from the government...how do we add more? More people AND more benefits.

So yes...at least ONE reply to tell you..as always...you miss the point..you miss the big picture.

WHY do you think EVERYONE wants to come HERE? They LEAVE places with free healthcare...to come here? We are already VERY generous when it comes to the poor. TOO generous.