Lou Dobbs's War On The Middle Class

Have you ever noticed the crisis raging within the middle class? Lou Dobbs has surely noticed and in War on the Middle Class, Dobbs discusses the issues surrounding the middle class and how they can be solved. In this book, Dobbs discusses the problems of the elitists within the middle class, the flaws in healthcare, and the faults in the United State’s education system.
The Declaration of Independance was not signed by elitists, but by people who were both wealthy and poor. Lou Dobbs quotes a passage from the declaration of independence that says the governed must give their consent to the government. As Lou Dobbs says, “ The American Dream was from the beginning, the promise of political democracy, a wide range of civil liberties, and the
Big companies do not want to provide basic healthcare to their employees because it costs around $10,880 per family. In a study it was found that Americans found the price of healthcare more important than the economy and gas prices, but because of the hefty price, 46 million people in the U.S. do not have health insurance. Lou Dobbs states “ The U.S. is one of the only industrialized nations that doesn't provide healthcare to all of its citizens, yet we still spend more on it than any other country”(173). The expense of healthcare is problematic for many people, especially since many personal bankruptcies filed in the United States are from out-of-control payments for health care and treatment, like cancer patients who face out of pocket expenses of 35 thousand dollars. Some presidents have tried to address the healthcare problem like President Truman, who proposed a health insurance plan and President Nixon, who planned to establish national health insurance, but only President Johnson achieved any degree of success when he expanded coverage through Medicare and Medicaid. President Clinton also tried to fix the healthcare system, but his efforts almost ended his presidency. How can anyone be okay with this healthcare issue? Well, the elitists are okay with it because they are able to use healthcare as a bargaining chip against the middle class. Now businesses have found a way in which they would not have to worry about employees demanding healthcare, they hire illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants are ideal in this situation for big businesses because they do not qualify for health benefits, but illegal immigrants without health insurance affects the taxpayers of the U.S. This is so because when immigrants require medical attention they cannot pay, the bills are sent to the government and the government pays for it with the money