Let me ask you this: do you think that there are more uninsured illegals than there are uninsured citizens?
WASHINGTON – While "Sicko" filmmaker Michael Moore is blaming greed and a broken health care system for the inability of Americans to get health-care insurance, it turns out most without coverage are illegal aliens.
According to the latest Census Bureau figures, 43.6 percent of non-citizens in the U.S. are without health insurance. In addition, 33.6 percent of those born elsewhere are without coverage.
By contrast, only 13.4 percent of native-born Americans are without health insurance. And 17.9 percent of naturalized citizens are without coverage.
The statistics will be no surprise to health-care providers. Hospital emergency rooms in Florida and California have been forced to close their doors as a result of increased demands by uninsured and under-insured patients – many of them illegal aliens. According to a study by University of South Florida researchers, much of the demand on hospitals comes from new residents of the state. More than half of all emergency room patients in some Florida hospitals do not have insurance.
Doctors who treat uninsured patients are not compensated for their treatment.
As a result, hospitals in Florida have lost surgeons and stand to lose entire surgical departments. Some hospitals are having a hard time getting physicians to work because they are choosing to work in other areas where they will be fully compensated for the treatment they give. 84 hospitals in California have been forced to close because of the high cost of treating illegal aliens with only 50 percent of all treatments reimbursed by government.
"Even physicians in those emergency rooms don't fully get the point that by being compassionate, and generous, and gracious, they are, in essence, destroying their own livelihoods as well as their own hospitals," she said.
While politicians often mention there are 43 million without health insurance in this country, Cosman's report estimates that at least 25 percent of those are illegal immigrants. The figure could be as high as 50 percent.
Not being insured does not mean they don't get medical care.
Among the organizations directing illegal aliens into America's medical systems, according to the report, are the Ford Foundation-funded Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Immigration Law Center, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association's Commission on Immigration Policy, Practice, and Pro Bono, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, the National Council of La Raza, George Soros' Open Society Institute, the Migration Policy Institute, the National Network for Immigration and Refugee Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Answer:
This is very personal to me.
My wife was in a collision with an illegal alien with fake drivers license, and fake insurance.
Guess who had to put the claim on their insurance??
Guess who had to pay the deductible??
Yeah...WE DID!
And if she had been hurt or killed...it would have all been on us too...
why don't you just blog this ... its rhetorical
Well, remember that when anyone comes into an ER for life-threatening cases, they have to be treated regardless of immigration status. It's a tremendous burden on your emergency rooms, EMTs, ambulances, etc., when people don't have health insurance. Immigration status doesn't make any difference. It costs the same to transport someone to the ER whether they're illegal or not.
We are not helping the illegals by allowing them to come here. They are abused in the corporate America. They work for substandard wages and benefits, but the ones who are hurt worst are the ones who can least afford it; the under-skilled under educated US citizen. I know that in my town hit ands run accidents happen daily and the perp is usually illegals without insurance. I was unaware of the fact that 43% of uninsured were illegals but this brings up another issue: if universal health care is made a reality in the US the citizens will once again be asked to foot the bill for people who are breaking our laws and have no right to be here.
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