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While traveling in an Uber from Hallendale Beach to the Fort Lauderdale airport this week, I was fascinated by a series of phone conversations my driver had during the ride.
The man did not speak much English, but was fluent in Spanish.
I asked him where he was from - he said recently from Venezuela. He was listening to Spanish radio. He was young, late twenties, and in shape, very dark skinned, in good health.
The phone attached to 'hands free' mode rang in the car and the man answered. On the other end of the line, was what I would call an adult female, white, and highly educated. She was acting very 'compassionate', and you could tell she believed she was virtuous and 'doing the right thing'.
She obviously worked for some progressive NGO and had been doing what she was doing for this NGO for some time - she seemed 'experienced'.
She was calling to confirm the man for an appointment in south Florida for magnetic resonance imaging, otherwise known as an MRI.
This is an expensive medical procedure to scan a portion of a body and obtain internal images, to look for medical problems.
There were a series of phone calls, in pigeon English, which went no where as they could not agree on a date for the procedure, then the woman brought on a Spanish interpreter and she was able to finalize the appointment.
The point is not that the man didn't need an MRI, the point is the migrant, working for Uber, after recently arriving from Venezuela, was having what was essentially a professional staffing agency, likely non-profit paid for by Florida tax payers, provide him free medical care.
And yes, I asked him, "Do you pay?" and he replied, "No."
Imagine this process on steroids, for 20 million migrants.
Now imagine how much money that is we are paying for free, full-boat, migrant health care.
