I was looking through some of my files from 2002 - 2004 and I was paying about $100 bucks a month for a personal full coverage blue cross medical plan, it was awesome, I'd be treated like a king from Blue Cross as well as my local hospital. Then, suddenly, my insurance rates skyrocketed and the service at my local hospital (a private institution) went to hell!
How did this happen? > A surge in the illegal alien population coupled with the law that makes it illegal for health care institutions the ability to turn away non paying / non insured patients . . no receivables . . . no more hospitals! as we used to know them.
Damn that $5 a head lettuce doesn't sound so bad now, does it?