Attempts to create a government supported health care plan for everyone fail in Congress. Health Maintenance organizations and insurance companies campaign against public health care and they have large campaign financing budgets. Research into a cure for AIDS is extremely costly and has no hope of immediate payoff. Private enterprises will pursue research into pharmaceuticals which promise an immediate and profitable product. Mergers and consolidations of pharmaceutical companies have allowed the remaining few to dedicate large amounts of their budgets to the creation and production of drugs which will have a big payoff.
Smaller companies are out of business.
Medicine and Medical care increasingly are in the hands of large corporations whose goal is higher profits and a higher stock market position. Health Care companies are tied to particular delivery systems of pharmaceuticals such that the choice of drugs available to a patient will be determined not by the doctor but by the corporate structure of the enterprise. The Federal Government has increased its budgets for policing the border with Mexico. In recent years, States and Federal Government have increased their attempt to reduce the flow of immigrants from Central and South America and to war against illegal immigration. Increased public debt in the United States have led conservatives to demand cuts in public expenditures.