Again, another opinion without giving it any thought
It seems like we cannot have a useful thread in this forum without someone disrupting the topic that is being discussed here..
Every one has their own reasons to bring their parents. Definitely Medicare/ Medicaid is
not the reason.
Those who can "afford" to bring their parents are among those who have shown their financial eligibility to support their parents, (so that they don't become a public charge) and by virtue of what they make financially, pay huge taxes - the benefit of which they may or may not derive ex.. Social secuirty taxes. Again these are the same "people who work hard to pay for them". The common sense here is people who show financial eligibility to sponsor their parents are making more and therefore paying more taxes (thereby contributing towards federal funding etc.,) than those who "cannot afford" to sponsor their family.
And the parents in many cases are going to work, thereby paying the same taxes, which you claim "the hard working people pay". How can you say "Dont' bring your parents?'. It doesn't make any sense - and how are they going to be a burden on the state? They are either financially taken care of by the sponsors or work and make their own money. How are they any different from a spouse who is being sponsored? Are you trying to say that if a USC sponsors his spouse and if the spouse is in a life-threatening medical situation, and if they apply for emergency medicaid b'cos their medical plan doesn't cover it - then will you ask him "why did you sponsor your wife when you could not afford medical costs that run into thousands?" Emergencies are emergencies, regardless of whether it is a parent or spouse or otherwise!
What you are saying is over simplification of how taxes and federal funding and medicare etc work. The federal government/State has budgets that balance these things. Otherwise you or I as immigrants cannot be discussing these things in a forum living in the US. If you are so concerned about middle class and the taxes we pay, you must first raise your voice against where billions of tax payers money is going fruitless - the war and the aftermath!
Lastly, those who are bringing their parents here, at least some of them on this thread, had already sponsored their parents and are those who can "afford" normal medical healthcare. And the reasons for them bringing their parents here is not contingent on Medicaid or Medicare. They had decided to bring their parents regardless.
As you claim, if you have read the entire thread, the topic that was initially discussed here was how to obtain healthcare, for older people and what happens in case of a life threatening emergency. This country is not going to give anything for free without checking the life threatening emergency - that could happen to anyone -whether it be parents who are here on sponsorship, or a sponsored spouse or a natural born USC.