Health Affairs has a good halftime report from the Healthcare Summit, summarizing the jabs and parries between Democrats and Republicans on their healthcare ideas. Read it here. Too bad they left the best (and really only) question until last — it’s long past time to answer it and get out of the dead ends and diversions in the healthcare reform debate.
As I live in southern Arizona, I expect immigrants, especially illegal immigrants, to be the scapegoat for the problem de jour. The county hospital is running a deficit for the 15th consecutive year? It’s the illegals. But it doesn’t stop there – state and city government mismanagement, educational system woes, the housing market collapse, even global warming – all are somehow caused by illegal immigrants. “Blame Mexico” may not be admirable root cause analysis, but it’s a surefire way to identify a redneck. Now a new Health Affairs report has debunked a nationwide craze of immigrant scapegoating.
