NEJM, the Medicalization of Everything, and the Political Corruption of Expertise

This is a good example of the kind of crackpottery we find on the elite left.

   Find some way in which some policy or other affects medical care / health. Then find some doctors or medical researchers willing to represent themselves as experts on these grounds. Then assert or suggest that the original policy is, therefore, in effect a medical matter--ergo the docs are experts who get to pronounce the policy good or bad.

   And--surprise--the progressive position is always the position supported by medical science--"the science" relevant to the matter at hand.

   This is the same kind of argument we get from progressive medical types concerning firearms: firearms affect people's health, doctors (and medical researchers) are the experts on health, ergo doctors (etc.) get to determine what firearm policy should be.

   Oh and, of course, there is the de rigueur conflation of legal with illegal immigration. Even I'm surprised at how resolutely dishonest the left is on this point. You'd think that the steadfast refusal to acknowledge a crucial distinction in a debate would eventually cause the public to simply discount the pronouncements of the offending faction. And maybe it has, outside the True Believer class. But the left has demonstrated its almost preternatural ability to ignore politically incorrect or otherwise inconvenient facts...

   Anyway, in this case, the position of the authors seems pretty much immediately contradictory. It seems to be: we can't run the health-care system without (illegal?) immigrants, because they are willing to accept unfairly-low wages... Now, normally the left stops here, suspending its histrionic obsession with "social justice"...  But the NEJM authors go on to say: And we've got to raise these wages. So...we can't run the system without illegal immigrants who accept low wages...but we've got to raise their wages because--etc. 

   Do these people every listen to themselves? Or read their own articles?