TrumpCare May Lead to Massive Internal Migrations.

[MineralMan]

11. If anyone doubts that this could happen,

consider a working class family in, say Alabama, with a child who has serious health issues that cannot be accommodated there. Meanwhile, another state, say Minnesota, has set up their own healthcare system that ensures that poor people receive healthcare, even if they cannot afford to pay for it, particularly for children.

If that family has a car and enough gas money to get to Minnesota, the parents may just decide one day that it's time to move on. That's what happened in the Dust Bowl days. People piled what they could in and on the family's creaky automobile and headed West. They really had no alternative, except to starve.

Much of the internal migratory behavior in the United States has been economic in nature. Healthcare is economic in nature, and life-threatening, much as the Dust Bowl was. People will move, if they must, to survive or to give their children a chance to survive.