LETTER: U.S. can't just provide for everyone

Last month American scientist Richard Heck died outside of a Manila hospital. He was 88 years old and had won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2010. On Oct. 9, outside of the Manila hospital, being deathly sick and confused, he failed to carry a credit card or any cash to pay entry and receive medical care. Like many he was denied emergency entry. He literally died outside the hospital doors, as he vomited to death.

The hospital did not know he was a scientist. They did not know he was famous. They only knew he could not pay any part of his medical care at the time of entry. Filipinos are not harsh people. In fact, they are known as gentle and affable, but are very poor. Providing free health care is impossible for them, and may soon be for us, as well.

Americans are facing a “holocaust” by the hapless advocates of illegal immigration who believe there is no price to pay for their “humanitarian” lunacy. And some presidential candidates secretly see all of it as a means for cheap labor in both parties.  But there are already 10 million illegal immigrants who will soon need serious medical attention, like most of our American citizens; care which demands billions of dollars from taxes.

But we can’t even cover the expense for ourselves. It is one of the many fantasies of the left-wing radicals running the White House (“who know better” than most of us). It is absolutely stupid to believe we can handle the welfare of other nations. Our own health-care collapse is on the horizon, and what is more baffling is why this president wants to “solve” global warming while invading Syria, uninvited.  

I assume you don’t have to be crazy to be president, but nowadays it helps. —Mike Donohue, Kalispell