From the article i have been reading the writer says that Emergency care is forced upon hospitals and that there are many illegal immigrants that do not have insurance. She does not, and therefore i would suppose cannot link the two with any statistical data. i.e she cannot say there most of the people that use an emergency room without paying are illegal imm.
I think that questions about the state of US sovreignty are valid. It should be obvious that if too many people come into the US without assimilating then it will not be the same America it was. It is beyond the scope of my argument.
I have noticed that articles against the use of free services used by ill. imm. are much better researched and argued than the one i read that was for....... hopefully i will be able find some good data to back up my claim.
As for now it is going on the idea that their cheap labour makes up for what they spend in the entire economy. If you don't like that you may want to start mowing the yard, building highways, and cleaning skyscrapers for minimum wage or less.
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I do not believe that there is enough evidence to say that illegal immigrants are overburdening the healthcare system as a whole. I think the overall system has many other flaws and failures the reach far beyond whatever effect these immigrants put in motion when they go to the emergency room. That said, however, there is some pretty good data out there to suggest that individual public hospitals are feeling the pressure to honor the Hippocratic Oath and save lives, but at the same time to stay afloat economically. Take for instance the recent news story of the University Medical Center in Las Vegas, NV. (see http://www.lvrj.com/news/53343302.html for more details) In past 5 years they have written off $1 million per month in medically necessary dialysis for illegal immigrants. In the current year that number has doubled - meaning they are shelling out $24 million of their own money for emergency care with no one to pick up the bill. There is no way for a hospital to remain open with these kind of systematic financial losses. It stands to reason that one day UMC will have to close its doors. And then where will the illegal immigrants go for their dialysis? I sure hope that the number of illegal dialysis patients at this particular hospital do not continue to increase or else there will really be a crisis.
ReplyDeleteMedia, people in general are so quick to blame everything on the illegal immigrants. I have to say that those rushing to the hospital and using the entire healthcare is not just illegal immigrant but simply those without health insurance. A large number of those uninsured are immigrants but should be labeled as what can be done to help the uninsured. I understand the way business works, if costs are coming out of their (hospital) pockets then a course they’re going to be in the negatives.
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