How does immigration affect health care?
Answer:
The cost of health care is rising. Those of us with insurance are paying more everyday to cover the cost of the illegals that the hospitals along the border continue to treat. Hospitals are only required to provide emergency care. Enough to stabilize and then move them along. On a daily basis ILLEGAL women will approach a marked Border Patrol vehicle while in active labor and demand to be taken to a hospital. Fortunately most agents have caught on and now are able to get them processed and back across the border to waiting ambulances on the Mexican side of the border. Preventing the birth of another "anchor baby" and more free medical and welfare cost to the American Tax Payer!
Walk into any hospital emergency room and look around. A lot of resources being used there.
Well, when people come into this country legally, obtain a job, get insurance and live like a good, upstanding citizen, it's affects are not detrimental. But when someone comes into this country, has no insurance, can't speak the language and they go to the emergency room (because the doctors office won't accept them or they are afraid to go to the clinic), they cause the hospital to have to order/pay for a translator (because you know, we can only translate and know so many languages on our own), and when they can't and won't pay their bill, the hospital has to suck up that cost too, which in turn causes the hospitals to charge more and therefore the good insurance paying citizens have to pay increasingly higher premiums for *their* insurance.
Our health care industry is now having to deal with diseases that were not common in the U.S..
WorldNetDaily: Rare brain worms latest border disease
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/articl...
"USAID Health: Infectious Diseases, Tuberculosis, Countries, MexicoThese states include those along the U.S.-Mexico border and those with the highest TB rates and largest concentrations of migrants. More recently, USAID has
"http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_hea...
"Preventing and Controlling Tuberculosis Along the U.S.-Mexico BorderTB is brought into the United States from Mexico and Central America in three ways: a) persons with active TB disease move northward across the border; ...
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml...
Immigration itself does not affect health care for the US citizens, but illegal immigration does. When an illegal immigrant is treated at any hospital or health care institution, the dollar cost is passed on to the tax payers and those paying for health care services or absorbed by the health care institution, which means higher cost to the next legal immigrant and citizen who needs health care services.
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