Oh, give me a break!

The Sun-Times is on a roll lately with their biased reporting. Maybe they have a new editor who came over from the Village Voice. Check out this story.

Apparently, Cook County hospital gives away prescription drugs. That's right, doesn't charge anything. Because they blow through so much money every year (and continue to suck up productive folks' tax money), they are proposing to begin charging a whole $3 a prescription, up to a max of $10 per visit. Of course, this has "advocates" of poor people going nuts:

"He's sticking it to the people who can least afford it," said Ed Shurna of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless.

He blathers on for a bit because county employees only pay $5 a prescription. Rich public employee health benefits are a topic for another day, but they are also a side benefit as part of a total compensation package. The hospital is a welfare program. They aren't even comparable.

Then there's this sob story:

Still, the news was a jolt to Caron Alvarez, who spent six hours waiting to fill her husband's insulin prescription Thursday while he worked.

The Cicero woman sobbed as she realized she didn't have enough money for bus fare to get home, let alone an extra $3 for a prescription.

"We might not be able to afford it," she said. "He'll stop taking it and then we'll have to call an ambulance and send him to the emergency room. Then, it'll be a bigger bill."

Let's break this down. She's getting an insulin prescription for her husband, who works all day, yet she won't have $3 for the drugs and $2 for the bus. I'm not buying it. Maybe she could stop buying potato chips and pork rinds to pay for the drugs, which is probably the reason her husband has diabetes to begin with.

Also, how in the heck can he have a full-time job and not have $3 for drugs to keep him alive? Let's say it together (you know the answer), "He's an illegal immigrant!"

How can this stupid, silly woman go on a trip to the hospital, only to realize she doesn't have enough money to get back? She's either very stupid, lying, or planning on begging for money to get home.

Then there's her entitlement mentality. Either she gets the drugs for free or she's going to sponge off the public even more by making us pay for an ambulance. Very nice.

This story very nicely encapsulates the problem with having an open-borders immigration policy combined with the welfare state. Too many people come here who have no skills, no money, and no education, and then they leech off of our generous welfare system (and by welfare, I don't mean WIC; I mean everything the state has built up to give things away to poor people). People are starting to realize we can't have it both ways, which is why they are starting to wake up and demand action.