Foreigners COVERED

I recently came across 2 versions of the 1956 Republican Platform:

Version 1:

1. Provide Federal assistance to low-income communities.
2. Protect Social Security.
3. Provide asylum to refugees.
4. Extend the minimum wage.
5. Improve unemployment benefit systems, so it covers more people.
6. Strengthen labor laws so workers can easily join a union.
7. Assure equal pay for equal work, regardless of sex.

Version 2:
1. Stimulate improved job safety of our workers, through assistance to the
states, employees and employers.
2. Continue and further perfect its programs of assistance to the millions
of workers with special employment problems, such as older workers
handicapped workers, members of minority groups and migratory workers.
3. Strengthen and improve the Federal-State employment services and improve
the effectiveness of the unemployment insurance system.
4. Protect by law the assets of employee welfare and benefit plans, so that
workers who are the beneficiaries can be assured of their rightful
benefits.
5. Assure equal pay for equal work, regardless of sex.
6. Federally-assisted construction, and maintain and continue the vigorous
administration of the Federal prevailing minimum wage law for public
supply contracts.
7. Extend protection of the minimum wage laws to as many more workers as is
possible and practicable.
8. Continue to fight for elimination of discrimination in employment
because of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry or sex.
9. Provide assistance to improve the economic conditions of areas faced
with persistent and substantial unemployment.
10.Revise and improve the Taft-Hartley Act so as to protect more effectively
the rights of labor unions, management, the individual worker and the
public.
11.The protection of the right of workers to organize into unions and to
bargain collectively is the permanent policy of the Eisenhower
Administration.

If true, this coming out of the mouths of the Republican Party, is absolutely mind-blowing. If these words were being spoken today by Democrats, the GOP would be screaming: "Communists!"

If "Medicare for all" works in most, if not all, European countries, why wouldn't it work in the US?

And what are we, a hundred miles north of you in Montana? Chopped liver?

Actually, I'm surprised (and disappointed) to discover that Mexico apparently did not already have universal medicare as we in Canada and in the rest of the enlightened industrialized western world (except the USA) understand that phrase.

"Dental tourism" visits by US residents to Mexico have been going on for decades. But if the healthcare now being made available to visiting foreigners provides access only to IMSS hospitals, I don't see a flood of Americans looking to "medical tourism" visits to Mexico to take advantage of "free" healthcare.....unless, of course, Trump cuts millions more from Medicare.

(Isn't it odd that the Republicans have had years and years to get rid of "ObamaCare" but have come up empty? During the Republican presidential candidate race in 2016, every single candidate promised that their first act as President would be to get rid of ObamaCare. Cruz promised to accomplish that in his first day in office! But Trump still proudly campaigns on his slogan: "Promises made, promises kept"......and the morons clap and cheer wildly.)

"Respectfully, 80 % of Americans receive better care than Canadians, 20% don’t."

Well, if they're getting better care than Canadians, they are paying through the nose for it!

Respectfully, 80 % of Americans receive better care than Canadians, 20% don’t.

They call it collective punishment in social terms.

I agree no one is liberal or conservative, although did you fail to see the humor in it ?

I can’t find any census that agrees with your final statement, not even if you count the shelter in place policy.

Regards,

Not going to argue, but I believe you are mistaken about the medical care. Too many U.S. citizens can't afford health care, and health care costs in a greed-profit environment promote illness and poverty. It's shameful to see so many people living in the streets or in their vehicles because an illness and a lack of access to affordable care drove them broke.

Saludos

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Respectfully, 80 % of Americans receive better care than Canadians, 20% don’t.

I can't let that one escape without comment. By most of the measures used to evaluate the quality of a nation's health, (life expectancy, infant mortality rates, obesity, cost per patient, etc., etc.) Canada ranks higher, or "better" if you wish, than does the USA. Using your figures, the 20% who don't receive better care must be pulling down the average.....doubtful....and the 80% with allegedly better health care must be really paying through the nose for it, because US healthcare costs are among the highest in the world. I suspect that the 80% must include unionized workers who have negotiated decent health benefits from their employers. Unfortunately, the percentage of the US workforce covered by collective agreements has been dropping for years - and the first victim of the elimination of a union is the healthcare plan they had previously negotiated.