Simple: make a law that only citizens get free health care. Migrants should be free to come and work for private businesses, but you're right that Italians shouldn't have to pay for them.
They can buy private health insurance (maybe even be forced to,
if you're worried they'll show up at the ER ), or go without.
Just make a law that creates a huge class of desperately poor second class citizens that permanately can't vote and whose poverty never effects anyone around them.
Of course! Why didn't I think of that. Nothing about that situation is completely combustable and non-sustainable. We are just swimming in real world examples where that worked out just fine.
The alternative is not that they be first class citizens, it's that they're not citizens (or legal residents) at all. They also wouldn't be desperately poor if they were legal residents.
For the record I, like most immigrants, am a "second-class citizen" who can't vote and would be deported if I committed a crime. I would prefer to be a US citizen, but since that's not an option right now I prefer being in the US legally with citizenship than being in my home country.
Simple: make a law that only citizens get free health care. Migrants should be free to come and work for private businesses, but you're right that Italians shouldn't have to pay for them.
They can buy private health insurance (maybe even be forced to,
if you're worried they'll show up at the ER ), or go without.
Just make a law that creates a huge class of desperately poor second class citizens that permanately can't vote and whose poverty never effects anyone around them.
Of course! Why didn't I think of that. Nothing about that situation is completely combustable and non-sustainable. We are just swimming in real world examples where that worked out just fine.
The alternative is not that they be first class citizens, it's that they're not citizens (or legal residents) at all. They also wouldn't be desperately poor if they were legal residents.
For the record I, like most immigrants, am a "second-class citizen" who can't vote and would be deported if I committed a crime. I would prefer to be a US citizen, but since that's not an option right now I prefer being in the US legally with citizenship than being in my home country.